SC Refers Fresh Plea Against Polygamy To Constitution Bench
More than a month after the Supreme Court sought the Centre’s stand on banning polygamy and nikah-halala on five petitions and referred them to a constitution bench, one more woman victim has moved the apex court.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices D Y Chandrachud and A M Khanwilkar referred the fresh petition filed by one Shabnam also to the same constitution bench by. More than a month after the Supreme Court sought the Centre’s stand on banning polygamy and nikah-halala on five petitions and referred them to a constitution bench, one more woman victim has moved the apex court. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices D Y Chandrachud and A M Khanwilkar referred the fresh petition filed by one Shabnam also to the same constitution bench by ordering it's tagging. The SC is already seized of four petitions- filed by two victims Nafisa Begum and Sameena Begum and two advocates Ashwini Upadhyay and Mohsin Kathiri challenging the constitutional validity of the polygamy and nikah-halala.




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