The most crucial recommendations it is likely to make are equal property rights for women, including Muslims, raising the marriage age for ...

The AIMPLB opposed advocate and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay's plea on the basis that personal laws cannot be tested on the anvil of A...

Ever since the Jawaharlal Nehru led government legislated the Hindu Marriage Act 1956, a section of society has been harbouring a grievance...

With this bill, Parliament righted a wrong it had inflicted on its people more than two decades earlier.

The key factor, the judge said, is that law expects all disputes should be decided in one forum to avoid multiplicity of proceedings.

Triple talaq will be criminalised, that doesn’t mean divorce has been banned. There is a procedure mentioned in the holy book, says M J Akb...

Seminary says if man is sent to jail then the fate of his wife and children hangs in the balance.

Among other things, the 'Muslim women Protection of Rights on Marriage' Bill provides for a 3-year jail term to those found guilty of prono...

The draft bill says, "any pronouncement of talaq by a person upon his wife, by words, either spoken or written or in electronic form or in ...

There are also common general laws that apply to all religious communities under which maintenance can be claimed. Under S.125 CrPC, all In...

Siddiqua Begum (70), who witnessed her mother's struggle in the corridors of courts and in the society, says divorced women from the commun...

A bench led by CJI JS Khehar on Tuesday unveiled the contours of a debate, expected during the court’s summer recess beginning May, on the ...

The assertion marks a challenge to the intent to extend gender equality to Muslim women and can open a fresh phase in the fraught debate.

The 1985 court intervention in favour of Muslim women in the Shah Bano case had turned politically acrimonious, with Parliament passing a l...

The Supreme Court on April 6 allowed a petition by a divorced Muslim woman for enhancement of maintenance from her ex-husband.

The Supreme Court on Monday said the right to maintenance of a wife was absolute and no exceptions could be made,

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to receive maintenance from her husband as long as she does not ...