Triple Talaq Bill is passed in Lok Sabha after Ordinance made 4 months before

Penalizes the archaic practice of instant triple talaq – with Jail term 3 years

•  Parliament on 27th December – 2018, passed the historic triple talaq bill that
  penalizes the anachronistic practice of instant triple talaq after a heated debate for fivehour in the Lok Sabha. The oppositions walked out of the house as the government
  refused to accept its demand of sending it to the select committee.
•  The Opposition leaders had earlier opposed the Bill during the debate and asked that
  it be referred to a Joint Select Committee for consideration rather than be debated and
  passed.
• However, Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill should not be seen through
  the “prism of politics” but of humanity. He asked members to pass the Bill, citing
  humanitarian considerations with regard to Muslim women suffering under triple talaq.
• The Bill penalizes the practice of Triple Talaq – an archaic practice that empowers a
  husband of muslim community to give instant divorce to the wife by saying Talaq three
  times.

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Government Ordinance on Triple Talaq in September – 2018

•  Earlier, in the same matter, the Central Government had issued an ordinance to
  penalize the triple talaq and had made arrangements to take legal actions against the
  triple talaq practitioners.
• However, the ordinance (Article -123) must be approved by Parliament within six
  weeks of reassembling or they shall cease to operate. They will also cease to operate in
  case resolutions disapproving the ordinance are passed by both the Houses. An
  ordinance has to be converted into legislation within 42 days of commencement of the
  Parliament session, or else it will lapse. An ordinance can be re-promulgated only thrice.
•  As per the constitutional proceedings, a bill has been passed on this ongoing Winter
  session of parliament. However, the government is at liberty to re-promulgate the
  ordinance if the bill fails to get through Parliament.
• Under the proposed law, giving instant triple talaq will be illegal and void, and will
  attract a jail term of three years for the husband. The fresh bill is proposed to supersede
  an earlier bill passed in the Lok Sabha and pending in the Rajya Sabha.

What is Rajya Sabha’s stand on the Bill

• Earlier, Rajya Sabha had suggested some amendments in the bill and the impasse
  between the Opposition and the government did not end. As a result, the government
  made up with a “fresh” bill and was introduce it in the Lok Sabha. That’s how the new
  bill superseded the earlier bill.
•  So far after the ordinance in September, around 439 cases of triple talaq have been
  reported to the government.