In a secular democracy, with a progressive Constitution, we shouldn’t fear the clergy. But they still wield power over the minds of significant sections of Indian Muslims.
Almost every area needs reform to bring these laws up to date with the contemporary realities. It has to begin with recognising the Muslim woman as a whole individual.
The diverging paths of legislative interventions in Muslim and Hindu personal laws is a result of the damaging effect that Muslim Personal Law symbolises in Indian politics.
To better integrate Indian Muslims, the totem of separatism, Muslim Personal Law, needs radical reform. And the process must begin with an overhaul of AMU’s power structure.
Supreme Court set to look into whether age limit for marriage under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act overrides Muslim personal law provisions, so long referred to by courts in such cases.
Decision came as HC dismissed a review petition filed by a man challenging divorce granted to his wife. According to the husband woman's right to end marriage under khula is not absolute.
Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi passed an order in favour of a Muslim couple aged 16 and 21 years, seeking protection from their families under Article 21 of the Constitution.
My fear is that secular liberals, disgusted by the Hindu triumphalism that will probably accompany the Uniform Civil Code, will forget their secularism and oppose the move.
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