Topic: Shayara Bano

For Shayara Bano, the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing Muslim women to seek alimony under Section 125 of the CrPC is ‘historic’ and a ‘new beginning’.

All Shayara Bano had to do is come down from Kashipur to Rampur to consult the real scholars of Islam on the exact position of divorce in Islam.

Author Salman Khurshid makes an insightful remark on the perils of using every examination of personal law to further the rhetoric of uniform civil...

Priya Hingorani, who played a role in Shayara Bano’s case, is the daughter of Shah Bano’s lawyer. 

Several Indian courts, including the Supreme Court, have ruled that the practice of instantaneous triple talaq is invalid and un-Quranic. It is unlikely that the upcoming hearing from May 11-19 by a constitution bench headed by the Chief Justice, will be groundbreaking. SANYA DHINGRA