{"id":30322,"date":"2018-10-26T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30322"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:52:52","slug":"sc-to-examine-polygamy-in-muslim-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-to-examine-polygamy-in-muslim-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to examine polygamy in Muslim marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/sc-to-examine-polygamy-in-muslim-marriage\/article23359285.ece\"><strong>SC to examine polygamy in Muslim marriage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven months after it declared instant triple talaq unconstitutional, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to look into the constitutional validity of the prevalent practices of polygamy, \u2018nikah halala\u2019, \u2018nikah mutah\u2019 and \u2018nikah misyar\u2019 in the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitions challenging the practices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Bench, headed by CJI issued notices to the Centre and the Law Ministry on a bunch of petitions that have challenged the practices claiming they degrade women to a position inferior to that of men<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offensive to equality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It offends the core ideal of equality of status<\/p>\n<p><strong>Section 494 of IPC rendered useless<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prevalent Muslim Personal Law rendered Section 494 of IPC (which prescribes punishment for marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife) as inapplicable<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No Avenues for a woman to complain against her husband<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Muslim wife does not have avenue to complain against her husband for the offence of bigamy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Constitution bench to be set up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bench, agreed to set up a five-judge Constitution Bench that will decide whether certain sections of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act go against the Constitution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC to examine polygamy in Muslim marriage What has happened? Seven months after it declared instant triple talaq unconstitutional, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to look into the constitutional validity of the prevalent practices of polygamy, \u2018nikah halala\u2019, \u2018nikah mutah\u2019 and \u2018nikah misyar\u2019 in the Muslim community. Petitions challenging the practices A Bench, headed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-to-examine-polygamy-in-muslim-marriage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC to examine polygamy in Muslim marriage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914184},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}