New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday raised serious concerns about the legality of talaq-e-hasan, a type of divorce in which a Muslim man can end a marriage by pronouncing "talaq" once a month for three months, reigniting the debate over unilateral Muslim divorces eight years after it overturned instant triple talaq.

After the court had earlier ruled that quick triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat) was "bad in law," a bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan, and NK Singh frequently questioned how such a practice could persist in "modern society."

The courts were considering many petitions contesting talaq-e-hasan, including one from journalist Benazeer Heena, who claimed that because her ex-husband never signed the divorce papers, she had trouble getting her child admitted to school. Her

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