The All India Milli Council convened a virtual consultation with journalists to address growing concerns around the contentious Waqf Act 2025. Prominent media personnel, legal experts, and community leaders joined the discussion to strategize a unified response to the Waqf legislation. Maulana Fazlur Rahim Mujaddidi, General Secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board,...
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Muslim Personal Law Board Approaches Supreme Court Against Waqf Amendment Law, says law violates fundamental rights of Constitution
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has moved the Supreme Court against the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. AIMPLB filed the plea in the top court late April 6. President Droupadi Murmu on April 5 gave her assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was passed by Parliament after...
Supreme Court Ruling Extends Maintenance Rights to Divorced Muslim Women, Stirs Legal and Social Debate
The Supreme Court has ruled that divorced Muslim women also have the right to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the CRPC, 1973, against their former husbands. Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih dismissed a petition challenging a Telangana High Court directive to pay a maintenance allowance of ₹10,000 per month to a divorced...
Bilkis Bano case: Is right to seek remission a fundamental right? Supreme Court asks convicts
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan today concluded hearing arguments of the convicts in the batch of pleas challenging the premature release of 11 men who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and brutally massacred her family members during the 2002 Gujarat carnage. Bilkis Bano has filed a petition Supreme Court against the remission...
Uniform Civil Code may bring disunity in India and cause humiliation to Minorities
Law Commission of India seeks suggestion from civil society on Uniform Civil Code till 15 July, 2023. By: M. Burhanuddin Qasmi The public notice from LCI The Law Commission of India (LCI) issued a fresh Public Notice dated 14 June, 2023 under subject line ‘Uniform Civil Code – Reg.’ and sought suggestions from common public,...
The mediation trap in Babri Masjid’s title suit dispute
Pratab Bhanu Mehta The Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute has long been accompanied by a sense of foreboding. The dispute has been historically charged, politically divisive and communally violent, putting both the nation and the Constitution at risk. So putting the dispute into mediation under the aegis of the Supreme Court evokes a resigned weariness. For...
CM Nitish Kumar shielding criminals: Tejashwi on Muzaffarpur Case
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is shielding the criminals. The former deputy chief minister made the statement after the Supreme Court reprimanded the CBI for transferring officials probing the Muzaffarpur Shelter home. “The way, in which Supreme Court is scolding Nitish Kumar and Bihar government, time and again,...