Holding that the issues were "very serious and important", the top court in 2018 had constituted a five-judge constitution bench to adjudic...

Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay said the matter deserves to be heard at the earliest as the issue is of public importance, gender justice, gender...

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said the apex court has already dealt with the issue of practices of polygamy and nikah ha...

His comments came after Congress reportedly promised to scrap the triple talaq law if the party comes to power in the general elections.

Another petitioner Nafisa Khan wants the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939, to be declared unconstitutional and violative of Articl...

Shabnam Rani was last week attacked with acid in Bulandshahr and it has been alleged that a close relative and his friend were involved in ...

Rani has challenged this practice as violative of gender equality guaranteed to all citizens under the Constitution. Personal laws of any r...

The apex court issued notice to the Centre on the petition filed by one Farjana and tagged the matter along with a batch of petitions to be...

The Bareilly administration has decided to step up the security of social activist Nida Khan, who had come out in support of a nikah halala...

In the party’s first formal reaction to the government’s stand on nikah halala and polygamy, Congress has said that it is just another atte...

In an affidavit to be filed by ASG Tushar Mehta in SC, the Centre has decided to reiterate its stand taken during the triple talaq case and...

The Centre has formed a team led by AG to mount a strong opposition to the practices of nikah halala and polygamy when the matter comes up ...

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submissions of senior advocate ...

Govt sources said the AG has been directed to present a strong case that will stand the scrutiny of the Supreme Court.

Nikaah halala makes it mandatory for a divorced Muslim woman to marry another man, consummate the marriage and divorce him should she wish ...

While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, 'nikah halala' deals with the process in which a Muslim woman, who wants to re-marry...

Nikah halala is the practice of temporary marriage and divorce that makes it permissible for an already divorced woman to remarry the previ...