Noorjehan Safia Niaz, co-founder of the Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) does not support practices such as the hijab and believes that instances where complete strangers — young and old men, and once a younger woman — walk up to her in public and question her choice of dressing with impunity and audacity, violate her personal space.
On 30 July 2019, the Parliament of India declared the practice of Triple Talaq illegal and unconstitutional and made it a punishable act from 1 August 2019.
[13] On June 23, 2014, BMMA released a draft, 'Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act' recommending that polygamy be made illegal in the Muslim Personal Law of India.
[15] In 2016, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) founded the Darul Uloom Niswan with the aim to train female qazis with the skills needed to challenge the misuse of authority by mullahs who had been issuing fatwas, supporting unilateral triple talaq, and promoting practices such as 'nikah halala', often leading to exploitation and abuse of power.
[16] The female qazis oversee sharia courts, solemnise marriages, mediate in marital and inheritance disputes, and provide counseling for women dealing with domestic violence.