LUCKNOW: Initiating action before a full-blown courtroom drama, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) thrashed out an eight-point code of conduct to be followed by the community, on Sunday. The board has decided to impose a ‘social boycott’ on those misusing the practice to dissolve a marriage. The right way to annul a marriage, says the board’s eight-point code of conduct, is to do it in three sittings with a gap of at least a month between two sittings.
Refusing to accept any interferences from the ‘outside’ to curb the practice, the board maintained it was its “constitutional” right to get the Muslim personal law implemented. However, in a shift from its earlier stand of denial of misuse, the board agreed that doing it in one go was unfair and improper.
The board meeting also took a decision on the Ayodha dispute. Presided by chairman Rabey Hasan Nadvi, the AIMPLB decided not to go for an out-of-court, mutually negotiated settlement of the issue as suggested by the Supreme Court.
“All the prior efforts in this direction have proved futile,” said the AIMPLB working committee, adding that the community would accept the SC decision and decided to press for an early disposal of the case. “No out-of-court settlement is acceptable to us,” AIMPLB General Secretary Maulana Wali Rehmani told reporters.
A resolution passed by the board executive also said that “on the Babri Masjid issue, the board would only accept a decision by the Supreme Court”, making it clear that the AIMPLB is not willing to accept the Supreme Court’s suggestion.