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A little over three months after he raped and killed a 3-year-old girl, the convict has been sentenced to death by a POCSO court in UP's Fatehpur, officials said today.
Muslim women who stood against the Islamic law to fight for rights
Muslim women who stood against the Islamic law to fight for rights
Triple Talaq Was Pulled To The Supreme Court By Muslim Women Who Were Unlikely Candidate To Have Challenged The Religious Practice. No One Had Ever Thought Women From Middle-class Families Staying In Small Towns Would Stand Up Against The Islamic Law To Demand Scrapping Of The Islamic Law Which Pronounced Divorced In One Sitting (triple Talaq).
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Neha Singh | Updated on: 22 Aug 2017, 01:15:14 PM
New Delhi:
A five-judge Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice of India JS Khehar on August 22 have pronounce its judgement on the legality of the Islamic personal law practice of talaq-e-bidat and nikah-halala (forms of divorce) in Islam and whether it violates the fundamental and human rights of gender equality and dignity of Muslim women.