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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicMuslim personal law

Topic: muslim personal law

Inheritance & the ‘enemy property’ question: The disputes surrounding Saif & family’s ancestral property

Last month, HC set aside an order upholding Saif & family's ownership of Nawab Hamidullah's property, which now faces division under personal laws & classification under Enemy Property Act.

HC denies protection to interfaith couple seeking to marry under Special Marriage Act. What law says

MP court declares Hindu-Muslim marriage invalid under Muslim Personal Law, even if registered under SMA. Legal experts say judge's interpretation of ‘prohibited relationship’ is ‘flawed’.

Kerala woman wants SC to declare her non-believer — ‘left Islam, but it still hinders inheritance’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Kerala Muslim woman is on a mission against Shariat Law. It’s a do-or-die inheritance battle

Safiya PM wants the Supreme Court to remedy the fact that non-believers are subject to Muslim personal law.

Modi must now break the Aristocracy of Collaborators controlling Muslim Personal Law, AMU

Much like Article 370, the Muslim Personal law has been a charter for a state within a state, creating its own Aristocracy of Collaborators, which keeps betraying India and the Muslim community while feeding on both.

Secular over personal law? SC to decide if a divorced Muslim woman can seek maintenance under CrPC

Muslim man moved apex court over Telangana High Court direction to pay Rs 10,000 interim maintenance to his former wife. SC bench appoints amicus curiae.

Nehru didn’t bring Muslim Personal Law reform. His commitment to secularism took a beating

In 'Raising the Bar', Pinky Anand and Saudamini Sharma explore cases and judgments that have shaped India and its people.

HC upholds acquittal of Muslim man accused of minor wife’s rape — no intercourse ‘before marriage’

Delhi HC's ruling comes amid conflicting orders from various high courts on whether a minor Muslim girl can enter into a valid marriage, and applicability of POCSO Act to such cases.

Question for UCC critics—Why don’t you want Sharia law for Muslim criminals?

There is no better way than UCC to pull Muslims from the margins of separatism into the mainstream of nationalism.

UCC is Modi’s nuclear button—split Indian politics between Hindu-lovers, Muslim-appeasers

BJP under Vajpayee feared the damage to India's social fabric if Muslims were made to feel their religious beliefs were being targeted. Modi doesn't share this concern.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.