During the hearing of a matter relating to Muslim women's inheritance rights, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant today ...

Supreme Court examines plea alleging Shariat inheritance laws discriminate against Muslim women, challenging their equal rights in India.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Central government and other concerned authorities on a plea challenging ...

The petitioner argued that inheritance rights of Muslim women must be protected. The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to ...

The court asked lawyer Prashant Bhushan to ensure that some aggrieved Muslim women are part of the proceedings.

A declaration that Section 2 of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937, insofar as it governs intestate ...

Ashok Bhan ashokbhan@rediffmail.com The debate over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has once again returned to the centre of ...

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Observing that a uniform civil code is a “constitutional ambition”, the Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Muslim ...

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