Shah Bano & the Muslim Women Act a Decade On
Publication Author:
Lucy Carroll (ed) , WLUML (co-published WRAG-WLUML Bombay)
Date:
1998 Attachment | Size |
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PDF Document | 546.02 KB |
number of pages:
233 ![Cover image](http://wrrc.wluml.org/sites/wluml.org/files/imagecache/bigger_thumbnail/import/gfx/pubs/covers/shah-bano.jpg)
Subtitled 'The Right of the Divorced Muslim Women to Mataa', this is the case of an Indian Sunni woman who filled a petition in the Supreme Court arguing that the Muslim minority law applied to her in her divorce denied her rights otherwise guaranteed by the Constitution of India to all citizens.
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