All personal laws in India are discriminatory
7 years, 7 months ago

All personal laws in India are discriminatory

Live Mint  

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down triple talaq should be the trigger to generate a candid debate on religion-based personal laws in the country. The petition stated that Shariah subjugated Muslim women by imposing purdah, allowing polygamy and unilateral divorce and depriving divorced Muslim women of maintenance rights. Several women’s groups and human rights lawyers’ teams have prepared drafts containing technical details of gender-just and secular family laws. After the Supreme Court judgment in the Shah Bano case—in which a 60-year-old mother for five from Indore filed a petition asking for alimony from her husband who had divorced her in 1978—the Muslim Women Act, 1986 was enacted; but the misery of divorced Muslim women was not alleviated.

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How Many Criminal Cases Registered Across Country For Pronouncing 'Triple Talaq' ? Supreme Court Asks Union
1 month, 3 weeks ago

How Many Criminal Cases Registered Across Country For Pronouncing 'Triple Talaq' ? Supreme Court Asks Union

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Union Government to give data about the criminal cases registered under the Muslim Women Act, 2019 against Muslim men for the pronouncement of triple talaq. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar passed the direction while hearing a batch of petitions filed by Muslim organisations challenging the …

Triple Talaq via video call: Mumbai Police investigate dowry harassment case against husband and in-laws
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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Triple Talaq via video call: Mumbai Police investigate dowry harassment case against husband and in-laws

Op India  

A woman has accused her husband and in-laws of harassment over dowry demands and being divorced via triple talaq on a video call. Mumbai police have registered a case against a man working in the United Kingdom and his parents for allegedly harassing his wife over dowry and divorcing her through triple talaq on a video call. The victim, a …

This is Hindustan, country will run as per majority's wishes: High Court judge
3 months, 2 weeks ago

This is Hindustan, country will run as per majority's wishes: High Court judge

India Today  

Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, a sitting judge of the Allahabad High Court, said he had no hesitation in saying that "Hindustan would run as per the wishes of the majority people" living in the country. Without naming the Muslim community, the judge said that practices like having multiple wives, triple talaq and halala were "unacceptable". The judge acknowledged that there …

‘You are not Muslim’: UP man gives ‘triple talaq’ to wife for supporting police action in Sambhal
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘You are not Muslim’: UP man gives ‘triple talaq’ to wife for supporting police action in Sambhal

Live Mint  

A woman from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh is making headlines after her husband gave her ‘triple talaq’ for supporting police action following Sambhal violence. The woman has alleged that while she was watching a video linked to the recent Sambhal violence, her support for police action infuriated her husband Ejazul. After this, Nida filed a police complaint against her husband …

UP woman backs police action in violence-hit Sambhal, husband gives triple talaq
3 months, 2 weeks ago

UP woman backs police action in violence-hit Sambhal, husband gives triple talaq

India Today  

A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad was allegedly given triple talaq by her husband for speaking in support of the police during the November 24 violence in Sambhal which claimed the lives of four people, police said on Sunday. The woman, Nida, claimed that her husband called her a 'kaafir' when she suggested that the police personnel had the right …

‘Fighting for women’s rights assured under Constitution’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Fighting for women’s rights assured under Constitution’

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: The ‘Forum for Gender Equality Among Muslims', a group of Muslim activists who wanted timely reforms in Muslim Personal Law, is not in any way opposing communal beliefs but merely demanding that the rights of women are guaranteed under the Constitution, the members said at the ‘Equality Conference’ held in Kochi on Saturday. In fact, the community has adopted …

Centre defends law on triple talaq in SC, says practice ‘fatal’ to institution of marriage
7 months ago

Centre defends law on triple talaq in SC, says practice ‘fatal’ to institution of marriage

Hindustan Times  

The Centre has defended its 2019 law against triple talaq by telling the Supreme Court that the practice is “fatal” to the institution of marriage. In an affidavit filed in response to petitions challenging the law, the Centre has said that despite the Supreme Court setting aside the practice in 2017, it has “not worked as a sufficient deterrent in …

Centre defends law against triple talaq, says it legitimised ‘abandonment’ of Muslim women
7 months ago

Centre defends law against triple talaq, says it legitimised ‘abandonment’ of Muslim women

The Hindu  

The Union government in the Supreme Court has justified the Central law criminalising triple talaq, saying the “practice legitimised and institutionalised abandonment of wives by their husbands” and was “neither Islamic nor legal”. The government said all it did with the Muslim Women Act, 2019 was make a practice called “manifestly arbitrary” by the Supreme Court a non-bailable criminal offence …

Centre files affidavit in Supreme Court, defends criminalising instant triple talaq law
7 months ago

Centre files affidavit in Supreme Court, defends criminalising instant triple talaq law

India TV News  

The Central government on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court defending its 2019 law criminalising instant triple talaq and said that the 2019 Act helps in ensuring the larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality of married Muslim women and helps subserve their fundamental rights of non-discrimination and empowerment. The Centre in the affidavit further added …

Muslim board to explore ways to overturn Supreme Court’s alimony verdict
8 months, 1 week ago

Muslim board to explore ways to overturn Supreme Court’s alimony verdict

The Hindu  

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on July 14 asserted that the Supreme Court verdict on maintenance to Muslim women was against Islamic law and authorised its president to explore all possible measures to ensure that this decision is overturned. After a meeting of its working committee in New Delhi, the board adopted a resolution which stated that the …

Muslim women’s alimony right meets the moment
8 months, 1 week ago

Muslim women’s alimony right meets the moment

New Indian Express  

In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court has said that a Muslim woman has the right to seek maintenance from her husband under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code like any other woman. The SC bench rejected the argument that the provisions of Section 125 do not apply in view of there being a personal law on the issue …

Ex-Muslim woman from Kerala challenges Muslim Personal Law provisions on inheritance, CJI agrees to hear her case
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Ex-Muslim woman from Kerala challenges Muslim Personal Law provisions on inheritance, CJI agrees to hear her case

Op India  

On Monday, the Supreme Court of India issued notices to State and Union governments while hearing a writ petition seeking a declaration that a person who was born a Muslim, but ceased to be a believer, would not be governed by the Shariat law. In her plea, Safiya seeks a “declaration that persons who do not want to be governed …

Supreme Court Transfers To Itself Petition In HC Challenging Validity Of Shariat Act & Polygamy In Muslim Personal Law
1 year ago

Supreme Court Transfers To Itself Petition In HC Challenging Validity Of Shariat Act & Polygamy In Muslim Personal Law

Live Law  

The Supreme Court transferred to itself the pending PIL before the Allahabad High Court challenging the validity of the Muslim Personal Application Act, 1937, and seeking a declaration that Section 494 IPC is ultra vires to the Constitution of India. In March last year, the High Court Bench of Justices Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Subhash Vidyarthi issued a notice to …

‘Policing love’: Why couples could now be thrown in jail just for living together in India
1 year ago

‘Policing love’: Why couples could now be thrown in jail just for living together in India

The Independent  

Latika and Ankit don’t want to get married. Here in the picturesque Himalayan foothills, where The Beatles came to seek spiritual enlightenment, the Uttarakhand state government has become the first in the country to draft and approve a controversial law governing many aspects of people’s private lives, including marriage, divorce, inheritance, property rights and – most controversially – so-called “live-in” …

Why Modi’s government’s common law in Uttarakhand will lead to ‘chaos’ if passed elsewhere
1 year ago

Why Modi’s government’s common law in Uttarakhand will lead to ‘chaos’ if passed elsewhere

The Independent  

In the foothills of the Himalayas, a picturesque Indian state known as the “Land of the Gods” has become the site for a controversial sociopolitical experiment by the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party. This week, a new law in Uttarakhand has, for the first time since India’s independence, overridden the plurality of personal laws governing family matters for different religious …

Practice and law: debating aspects of the Muslim personal law
1 year ago

Practice and law: debating aspects of the Muslim personal law

The Hindu  

Last week, the Assam Government quietly repealed the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935. The decision was widely criticised in political circles, but the fact remains that the Muslim personal law, and inevitably, Muslim marriage, divorce, maintenance and inheritance, have been in the public eye in recent years. They have all been the subject of study for academics …

Supreme Court Tags Petition Challenging Criminalisation Of Triple Talaq With Pending Petitions
1 year, 1 month ago

Supreme Court Tags Petition Challenging Criminalisation Of Triple Talaq With Pending Petitions

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday tagged a fresh petition challenging the criminalisation of Triple Talaq along with the petitions already pending before the Court on the same issue. Talaq to be void and illegal.—Any pronouncement of talaq by a Muslim husband upon his wife, by words, either spoken or written or in electronic form or in any other manner whatsoever, …

Paternalistic Approach Of Family Law Towards Woman
1 year, 1 month ago

Paternalistic Approach Of Family Law Towards Woman

Live Law  

The subject of religion-based personal legislation in India is a complex and multifaceted one, encompassing various aspects such as secularism, modernism, national cohesion, communal identity, religious liberty, and the principle of equality. Within the framework of Muslim personal law in India, there exist several instances that underscore the paternalistic approach embedded in family laws. The court's decision in this case …

Legally Speaking | The quest for equality, which is at the heart of the Uttarakhand UCC bill, is flawed
1 year, 1 month ago

Legally Speaking | The quest for equality, which is at the heart of the Uttarakhand UCC bill, is flawed

Hindustan Times  

Uttarakhand's Uniform Civil Code bill, recently passed by the state assembly session, has been a subject of intense discussion. While criminal laws apply to all Indian citizens without regard to religion, caste, race, or creed, distinct religious communities are governed by independent religious laws known as personal laws in case of civil matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship, succession, …

India’s Himalayan state becomes first to pass controversial uniform law for religions
1 year, 1 month ago

India’s Himalayan state becomes first to pass controversial uniform law for religions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The law – opposed mainly by Muslim minorities – …

Law and custom: On the Supreme Court’s verdict on same-sex marriage
1 year, 5 months ago

Law and custom: On the Supreme Court’s verdict on same-sex marriage

The Hindu  

​ The Supreme Court of India’s refusal to accord legal recognition to marriages between persons of the same sex is a huge legal setback to the queer community in the country. Given the progress in law in recent years and the deepening of the meaning of individual rights, there was widespread expectation that the five-judge Constitution Bench would give the …

India’s Supreme Court refuses to legalize same-sex marriage
1 year, 5 months ago

India’s Supreme Court refuses to legalize same-sex marriage

Hindustan Times  

India’s Supreme Court refuses to legalize same-sex marriage India's top court on Tuesday declined to allow same-sex marriages in the country.. India's top court on Tuesday declined to allow same-sex marriages in the country. 1 / 10 India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to legalize same-sex marriages. 2 / 10 The five-judge Constitution bench comprised of the Chief Justice of …

Gender Specific Laws Not "Anti-Opposite Gender", Only Meant To Address Unique Issues Faced By A Particular Gender: Delhi High Court
1 year, 6 months ago

Gender Specific Laws Not "Anti-Opposite Gender", Only Meant To Address Unique Issues Faced By A Particular Gender: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

In an attempt to strike a “neutral chord”, the Delhi High Court has explained how courts should deal with “gender-specific laws” and remain “gender neutral”, while emphasizing that the approach should not be biased towards a particular gender in such cases. To repeat, it is crucial to recognize that gender-specific laws are not meant to be "anti-opposite gender" but rather …

Muslim Law Board’s stand sought on nikah halala
1 year, 6 months ago

Muslim Law Board’s stand sought on nikah halala

The Hindu  

August 25, 2023 06:30 pm | Updated 11:29 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Law Commission has asked the All India Muslim Personal Law Board to unambiguously state its position on nikah halala and muta, two controversial forms of marriage. These questions assume significance as petitions against nikah halala and muta have been filed in the Supreme Court by several …

Empowerment or exploitation? How Uniform Civil Code will impact women’s rights in India
1 year, 7 months ago

Empowerment or exploitation? How Uniform Civil Code will impact women’s rights in India

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 9 MINS READ Is uniformity in law good for women? The Bebaak Collective, while suggesting reforms within Muslim personal law, has pointed out that all personal laws discriminate against women through the patriarchal institutions of the family and heteronormative marriage. It has sent a list of suggestions to the Law Commission titled …

The politics of the Uniform Civil Code
1 year, 7 months ago

The politics of the Uniform Civil Code

The Hindu  

On June 27, in Bhopal, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi advocated that a Uniform Civil Code be implemented, he was seeking to accomplish the last of the three core ideological agendas that the Bharatiya Janata Party has campaigned for years. Another key issue of UCC is Muslim personal law. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board came into existence in …

News18 UCC Survey: Why I, a Muslim Woman, Am All For Uniform Civil Code - News18
1 year, 8 months ago

News18 UCC Survey: Why I, a Muslim Woman, Am All For Uniform Civil Code - News18

News 18  

The Uniform Civil Code is an embodiment of Article 44 of the Indian Constitution which seeks the implementation of a uniform set of laws, governing the personal affairs of citizens, pertaining to the institution of marriage and the ancillary rights arising out of the same such as inheritance, alimony, guardianship and adoption, amongst others with the sole object of national …

The unseemly politics of the Uniform Civil Code
1 year, 8 months ago

The unseemly politics of the Uniform Civil Code

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pushing for a Uniform Civil Code and is blaming the Opposition for trying to “instigate” Muslims on the issue. The Congress said there was no need for the Muslim Women Act, which criminalises triple talaq, as the practice had already been declared null and void by the court, whereas in 1986, Prime Minister Rajiv …

Amend personal laws to ensure gender justice, say activists
1 year, 8 months ago

Amend personal laws to ensure gender justice, say activists

The Hindu  

The overarching aim ofa Uniform Civil Code is to ensure gender justice, the Union government holds, but is such a common law actually needed for the women’s cause? Women’s rights activists across the religious and political spectrum are unanimous in their view that the first preference towards gender justice is the codification of existing personal laws of all religions and …

What Are All India Muslim Personal Law Board's Various Objections Against Uniform Civil Code? Read Here
1 year, 8 months ago

What Are All India Muslim Personal Law Board's Various Objections Against Uniform Civil Code? Read Here

Live Law  

All India Muslim Personal Law Board has submitted its response to the Law Commission's public notice with respect to the Uniform Civil Code and said that it is reasonably apprehended by the Muslims in India that the raking of the topic of UCC is with the objective of putting the system of Muslim personal law in peril. Gender Equality Gaps …

Hard code to crack
1 year, 8 months ago

Hard code to crack

Live Mint  

That gender justice is yet to be established in India is beyond doubt. Legislative action holds the key to this aim, like a Uniform Civil Code on family matters for followers of all religions. The risk is that another key in the shape of social adherence to faith might warp the legal one’s efficacy, perhaps even its legal wording. Most …

Anita Anand | Imagining a new form of marriage in India: It has to start with a law
1 year, 10 months ago

Anita Anand | Imagining a new form of marriage in India: It has to start with a law

Deccan Chronicle  

Imagine a nuclear family in India: Mother, father, and children. Over the last decade, acceptance of homosexuality has grown in India, especially since the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality in 2018, with a ruling that legalised consenting gay sex. The government argues that while the right to love and cohabit is a fundamental right, but marriage itself is “not an absolute …

Need for state action was felt in triple talaq law, Centre tells Supreme Court
1 year, 10 months ago

Need for state action was felt in triple talaq law, Centre tells Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The government reasoned it had to introduce a law criminalising triple talaq as Muslim men continued the practice in spite of a Supreme Court judgment declaring it illegal. The government’s 177-page affidavit recently filed in the apex court came in response to a series of petitions which have challenged the constitutionality of the Muslim Women Act 2019, which makes the …

Five years after Section 377 landmark, queer community hopes for an epoch
1 year, 11 months ago

Five years after Section 377 landmark, queer community hopes for an epoch

Hindustan Times  

Like most things in India, it began at a wedding. “Runaway LBI women and trans persons often wish to marry each other and are seeking to secure some legal and social legitimacy for their relationship, particularly given the hostility, threat and violence that is inflicted on them not only by society at large but specifically from family members, opposed to …

Shariat Act Discriminatory Towards Muslim Women, Gives Higher Share To Men In Property Partitions: Plea In Supreme Court, Notice Issued
2 years ago

Shariat Act Discriminatory Towards Muslim Women, Gives Higher Share To Men In Property Partitions: Plea In Supreme Court, Notice Issued

Live Law  

A Special Leave Petition has been filed before the Supreme Court contending that partition of family property as per Shariat Law is discriminatory towards Muslim women inasmuch as it does not give equal share to a female compared to a male. "In spite of guarantee of the Constitution, Muslim women are subjected to discrimination," the plea filed by Bushara Ali …

Muslim women’s forum demands change in personal law
2 years ago

Muslim women’s forum demands change in personal law

The Hindu  

The Forum for Muslim Women’s Gender Justice has demanded the State and Central governments consider gender inequality and violation of constitutional rights of Muslim women in the Indian Muslim Personal Law and support the rights of Muslim women in connection with the Special Leave Petition that has already been filed in the Supreme Court in 2016. ‘Uyirppu 2023’, a State-level …

Why divorce criminal for Muslims? Pinarayi Vijayan on triple talaq ban
2 years, 1 month ago

Why divorce criminal for Muslims? Pinarayi Vijayan on triple talaq ban

India Today  

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked why triple talaq was criminalised when divorce happens in all religions.”The triple talaq was criminalised. He also criticised the country’s Vice-President and law minister for attacking the Supreme Court's Collegium system. “It was declared by a 13-member constitution bench of the Supreme Court in a landmark judgement in the Kesavananda Bharati case. The law …

All Sikkimese women must be allowed to get I-T relief: Supreme Court
2 years, 2 months ago

All Sikkimese women must be allowed to get I-T relief: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Friday, in a judgment, held that exclusion of Sikkimese women who marry non-Sikkimese men after April 1, 2008 from exemptions under the Income Tax Act is unconstitutional and amounts to gender discrimination. Justice B.V. Nagarathna, in a separate opinion, agreed that “there cannot be a discrimination vis-à-vis Sikkimese women marrying a non-Sikkimese individual, whether an Indian …

All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board Approaches Supreme Court Against Extra-Judicial & Unilateral Talaq
2 years, 5 months ago

All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board Approaches Supreme Court Against Extra-Judicial & Unilateral Talaq

Live Law  

The All-India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board has moved Supreme Court seeking against unilateral forms of divorce by Muslim husbands by pronouncement of talaq as per the personal law.The Board seeks to declare divorce given to Muslim women without following the due procedure as null & void with retrospective effect.The Board sought a direction from the Court to declare that …

Muslim woman moves Supreme Court for declaration of 'Talaq-e-Kinaya', 'Talaq-e-Bain' as void, unconstitutional
2 years, 5 months ago

Muslim woman moves Supreme Court for declaration of 'Talaq-e-Kinaya', 'Talaq-e-Bain' as void, unconstitutional

India Today  

A woman doctor has moved the Supreme Court challenging validity of Talaq-E-Kinaya and Talaq-E-Bain and all forms of Unilateral Extra-Judicial Talaq. The petition has argued that Talaq-E-Kinaya and Talaq-E-Bain and other forms of unilateral extra-judicial talaq is an evil plague similar to sati, and unfortunately, continues to vex Muslim women and pose extremely serious health, social, economic, moral and emotional …

5 judge SC bench to hear Muslim women's plea against nikah halala, polygamy
2 years, 6 months ago

5 judge SC bench to hear Muslim women's plea against nikah halala, polygamy

India Today  

A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme court on Tuesday took up the petitions filed by Muslim women and activists challenging issues relating to the practice of divorce in the Muslim community. These petitions have challenged practices including nikah halala, polygamy, mutah, misyar marriage that are prevalent under Muslim marriages and divorce law practices. The bench of justices Indira Banerjee, …

Supreme Court To Hear Cases Challenging Validity Of Polygamy & Nikah Halala In Muslim Personal Law In October; Issues Notice To NHRC, NCW & NCM
2 years, 6 months ago

Supreme Court To Hear Cases Challenging Validity Of Polygamy & Nikah Halala In Muslim Personal Law In October; Issues Notice To NHRC, NCW & NCM

Live Law  

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of polygamy and Nikah Halala allowed by Muslim personal law after the Dussehra holidays.Eight petitions challenging these practices were listed on Tuesday before a 5-judge bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee, Hemant. A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will …

Talaq-E-Hasan Not So Improper Prima Facie, Women Have Option Of Khula Divorce : Supreme Court
2 years, 7 months ago

Talaq-E-Hasan Not So Improper Prima Facie, Women Have Option Of Khula Divorce : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday made a prima facie observation that the practice of divorce through the Muslim personal law practice of Talaq-E-Hasan, as per which a man can divorce his wife by pronouncing "talaq" once a month for three months, is "not so improper".The Court noted that Muslim women have the option of seeking divorce through "khula". The Supreme …

Morning Digest | India-China ties seeing a positive impetus, says Chinese Ambassador; Salman Rushdie’s attacker pleads not guilty, and more
2 years, 7 months ago

Morning Digest | India-China ties seeing a positive impetus, says Chinese Ambassador; Salman Rushdie’s attacker pleads not guilty, and more

The Hindu  

India-China ties seeing a positive impetus, says Chinese Ambassador India and China are seeing a “positive impetus” to ties, given two meetings between the Foreign Ministers in the past few months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attendance at the BRICS summit in June, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on Saturday. Salman Rushdie’s attacker pleads not guilty The man …

Why new, aspirational India urgently needs Uniform Civil Code
2 years, 7 months ago

Why new, aspirational India urgently needs Uniform Civil Code

Firstpost  

The Uniform Civil Code has been strongly recommended to ensure national integration amidst a diverse and pluralistic polity, as its advantages far outweigh disadvantages. The UCC will confer fairer rights to women, as most religious personal laws are parochial and patriarchal in nature when it comes to equal rights in marriage, property ownership or inheritance. The best way forward is …

​Uniform Civil Code: One nation, two different sets of rules based on religion is an oxymoron
2 years, 10 months ago

​Uniform Civil Code: One nation, two different sets of rules based on religion is an oxymoron

Firstpost  

After delivering on two of the core pledges — abrogation of Article 370 and settlement of the Ram Mandir issue — the clangour is now growing for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s third promise, the Uniform Civil Code. “The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India,” declares Article 44. Noted feminist …

Right To Divorce Inherent Under Contractual Marriage In Islam: Muslim Woman Opposes Plea In Delhi HC To Declare 'Talaq-Ul-Sunnat' As Unconstitutional
2 years, 10 months ago

Right To Divorce Inherent Under Contractual Marriage In Islam: Muslim Woman Opposes Plea In Delhi HC To Declare 'Talaq-Ul-Sunnat' As Unconstitutional

Live Law  

A Muslim woman has moved the Delhi High Court opposing a public interest litigation which seeks declaration of Talaq-ul-Sunnat, the unqualified right of Muslim men give divorce to their wife, as unconstitutional. Whereas, the instant impleadment application has been filed by a Muslim woman who claims that she suffered a bad marriage, however, at the same time benefitted from the …

Polygamy: Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Muslim Men To Obtain Prior Consent From Existing Wife Before Subsequent Marriage, Notice Issued
2 years, 10 months ago

Polygamy: Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Muslim Men To Obtain Prior Consent From Existing Wife Before Subsequent Marriage, Notice Issued

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court today issued notice on a public interest litigation filed by a 28 years old Muslim woman, seeking a declaration that Muslim men cannot perform second marriage, without prior consent of their first wife. In essence, the plea seeks to restrict the practice of Polygamy in Muslim men, stating that the same is a regressive practice, derogatory …

Allahabad High Court rejects two women's plea to recognise their 'marriage'
2 years, 11 months ago

Allahabad High Court rejects two women's plea to recognise their 'marriage'

Firstpost  

The couple contended that the Hindu Marriage Act talks about the marriage of two people and homosexual marriage has not been opposed by the legislation Allahabad: A plea by two women to recognise their “marriage” on the argument that such union was not “opposed” by the Hindu Marriage Act has been rejected by the Allahabad High Court. Opposing their plea, …

Triple talaq law helping women: PM in Mann ki Baat
3 years ago

Triple talaq law helping women: PM in Mann ki Baat

Hindustan Times  

Women in the country are “reaching new heights”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday as he hailed his government’s women-centric decisions, including a law against the practice of triple talaq. The country has seen an 80% reduction in cases related to the practice of triple talaq, Modi said. The Prime Minister also talked about redefining “Ek Bharat-Shreshtha Bharat ” …

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