The Supreme Court of India has upheld the Gujarat Government’s scheme restricting the compensation for religious places destroyed during the communal riots of 2002 to a maximum of Rs 50,000 with many conditions attached thereto. Before the issue reached the Supreme Court at the instance of the State of Gujarat, in terms of the judgment […]

In 1937, in the Act to protect personal laws, it was stated that ‘Muslim Woman Organizations condemned the customary law’ stating that they were ‘disgraceful’ and demanded that the Shariat lawl be made applicable to make their life better by acknowledging the right of Muslim woman to have properties, right to divorce, right to inheritance […]