Nikah rights
THE Supreme Court recently delivered a judgement championing the rights of women within a marriage. The ruling stemmed from a case where a divorced woman sought entitlement to a plot mentioned in her nikahnama in the clause pertaining to ‘special conditions’, which her ex-husband contested. The top court held that in the presence of any ambiguity within the document, the benefit of the doubt should favour the wife, especially when she was not fully informed of her rights at the time of the marriage. The SC further ruled that allowing male family members to decide the terms of a nikah on........
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