In its first-ever affidavit in a court on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the Centre has submitted before the Delhi High Court that it does not have any immediate plan to implement the measure while emphasising the importance of the subject and .
In its first-ever affidavit in a court on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the Centre has submitted before the Delhi High Court that it does not have any immediate plan to implement the measure while emphasising the importance of the subject and sensitivity involved which requires in-depth study of the provisions of various personal laws governing different communities.
KOCHI: Overruling a 1972 judgment, the Kerala high court has restored the rights of Muslim women for divorce without resorting to judicial proceedings.
A division bench of the high court pronounced the judgment in a bunch of cases that arose out of different proceedings before the family courts seeking varied relief. Noting that the Holy Quran recognises the right to divorce equally for both men and women, the court observed that the dilemma of Muslim women, particularly in the state of Kerala, came to the fore when a single-judge bench in the “K C Moyin versus Nafeesa and Others” case negated the right of Muslim women to invoke extrajudicial divorce in the light of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939. PTI
Muslim Women Have Right To Invoke Extra-Judicial Divorce: Kerala High Court Muslim Women Have Right To Invoke Extra-Judicial Divorce: Kerala High Court The bench overruled a 1972 ruling of the single bench of the court barring Muslim women from resorting to extra-judicial modes of dissolving marriage.
Kerala High Court has restored the rights of Muslim women for divorce.
Kochi:
Overruling a nearly five-decade judgment, the Kerala High Court has restored the rights of Muslim women for divorce without resorting to judicial proceedings.
A division bench of the high court pronounced the judgment in a bunch of cases that arose out of different proceedings before the family courts seeking varied relief.