Seven months after declaring triple talaq or Talaq-e-Biddat as invalid and unconstitutional, the Supreme Court had decided to examine the validity of the practices of polygamy and certain forms of marriages in the Muslim community and referred the case to a Constitution bench to adjudicate.

Reports stated that a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and two judges agreed with a plea that validity of the practices needed to be examined in the light of the right to equality, and issued notice to the Centre asking it to make its stand clear on banning them for being violative of constitutional provisions.