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Maintenance under Muslim Law
Family Law I
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Constitutional Law II Case compilation
57 Landmark Constitutional Cases: Complete Notes
About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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Family Law I
Maintenance Under Muslim Law
About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Maintenance under Muslim law deals with who must support whom, the legal routes for enforcing that duty, and how a Muslim wife's right changes during the marriage, during iddat and after iddat. The topic runs through the Shah Bano judgment, t…
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Shah Bano
Supreme Court of India · 1985
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court held that Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (now Section 144 B.N.S.S.) is a secular provision that applies to all wives, including divorced Muslim women, regardless of religion. A divorced Muslim wife who cannot maintain herself can claim maintenance beyond the iddat period, and payment of mehr does not end this duty. The judgment started a nationwide debate on personal law versus secular law, led to the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, and revived the debate on a Uniform Civil Code under Article 44.
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Practice MCQs
2 practice questions test this section.
- 1 In Mohammad Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum, the husband argued that because he had deposited Rs. 3,000 as mehr, the maintenance order should be cancelled under Section 127(3)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code. How did the...
- 2 In Mohammad Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum, the husband argued that mahr was the sum payable on divorce, so paying it ended his liability. What did the Supreme Court hold about mahr?
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