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‘Islamic law allows polygamy’: Madhya Pradesh HC rules in favour of a man’s second marriage. Read how courts have leaned on Sharia for verdicts...

Rukma Rathore - 7 April, 2026

The court noted, "The parties are governed by Muslim Personal Law. It recognises the permissibility of plurality of marriages."

Law

Second marriage by Muslim husband cannot attract bigamy charges because Islamic Law allows 4 marriages at a time: MP High Court

OpIndia Staff - 7 April, 2026

The man's lawyer argued that Section 494 will be applicable only when a Muslim man marries for the fifth time while his other four marital relations are ongoing.

Chhattisgarh HC rules that Muslims can give away only 1/3rd of their assets, bequest of entire property ‘invalid’ in Islam without consent of legal...

OpIndia Staff - 9 February, 2026

Chhattisgarh HC noted that only one-third of a Muslim's property could be inherited through a bequest under the Mohammedan law.

Opinions

Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot, Dipu Das in Bhaluka: Bangladesh completes its transition into absolute lawlessness and Islamic fanaticism of Pakistan

Sanghamitra - 20 December, 2025

The unsettling similarity between Dipu and Priyantha is not limited to just how they were lynched and by whom, the allegations against them were similar too. Flimsy accusations of ‘blasphemy’, baseless rumours of ‘insult to Islam’ and ‘Insult to the Islamic prophet’.

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