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Bengaluru, Dec 29: The bill banning triple talaq and making instant triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat a criminal offence with a jail term of up to three years, which was passed by Lok Sabha on Thursday, has come in for strong criticism from Karnataka’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait in Bengaluru on Friday. 

The provisions of the Bill were against the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and curbs rights of minority community related to the marriage, the minister said. 

The Modi government has sought the state government’s comments on the draft Bill. 

But the Congress government had not sent its comments which deemed to be considered as the rejection of the Bill in total, said Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait, who also heads the Minority Department. 

Sait said the marriage system in the Muslim community was different from the Hindus. 

He said a meeting of Muslim religious heads, leaders and legislators would be called next to discuss the pros and cons of the Bill and later the Government would send its comments on the Bill to the Centre. 

The minister said more divorce cases were being reported in non-Muslim communities while they were ‘negligible’ in the Muslim community.  

Unlike other communities, there has been drastic reduction of childbirth rates among Muslim community, the minister said.