Even as the hearing on the issue of triple talaq is on, in some more heartening news for women, Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Gandhi has offered her support to the cause of eliminating of female genital mutilation (FGM). On Tuesday, lawyers and anti-FGM activists released a 57-page legal report highlighting the need for scrapping the practice.

The Centre's first warning to the Dawoodi Bohra community over the practice of khatna has been hailed as a "landmark breakthrough" in the fight against the 600-year-old custom. Anti-FGM activists are hoping that a law against the practice will serve as a deterrent, which has been openly cited as discriminatory to girls.