Family Law News SC agrees for urgent listing of pleas against ‘nikah-halala’, polygamy July 2, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court today agreed to consider listing of a batch of petitions challenging the practices of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among Muslims. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submissions of senior advocate V Shekhar that the petitions be listed before […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta Ashwini Upadhyay Chief Justice Dipak Misra D Y Chandrachud featured Muslim Personal Law nikah halala polygamy Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response on plea against polygamy and nikah halala. March 26, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the prevalent practices of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among the Muslims and sought responses from the Centre and the Law Commission. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission that an earlier five-judge constitution bench, in its 2017 verdict, had kept […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 featured nikah halala Nikah Misyar Nikah Mutah plea against polygamy and nikah halala polygamy
Top Law News SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea against triple talaq, polygamy March 1, 2016 / March 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s response in a plea challenging the constitutionality of Muslim practices of polygamy, triple talaq (talaq-e-bidat) and nikah halala. Talaq-e-bidat is a Muslim man divorcing his wife by pronouncing more than one talaq in a single tuhr (the period between two menstruations), or in a tuhr after coitus, or […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News polygamy SC seeks Centre's reply on plea against triple talaq Supreme Court