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Polygamy banned, equal inheritance rights ensured: All you need to know about the Madhya Pradesh Uniform Civil Code Bill

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Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Assam have officially enacted the Uniform Civil Code whereas States like Maharashtra, West Bengal and Rajasthan formed expert committees to design their respective regulations.
Government and Policy

Assam assembly passes UCC bill: Becomes first state in northeast to implement landmark uniform civil code to unify marriage, divorce, and property laws

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The Assam Assembly has passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026, creating a single legal framework for marriage, divorce, and inheritance across communities.
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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...

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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

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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.
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93% Muslim women want to stop child marriage, 85% want polygamy to be abolished, reveals a survey by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan: Details

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Most of these women came from low-income and low-education backgrounds, due to which they remained stuck in their polygamous marriages.
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Kerala HC turns to Sharia in a case about a blind beggar threatening his wife with polygamy, cites Quran in judgement: Full details

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Citing Quranic principles and Muslim customary law, the Kerala HC said polygamy is not permitted if men cannot treat their wives equally. However, it asked the state to protect women who were victims of polygamy.
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Allahabad HC says Muslim men who have multiple wives can’t be punished under Bigamy laws if marriage conducted under Sharia law: Details

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The court pointed out that polygamy is mentioned in the Quran only once and that too for a fair historical reason.
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Next step is banning polygamy, working to regulate inter-religion marriages, not looking at comprehensive UCC: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma on Wednesday said that the Assam government's priority to focus on the marriage reigstration bill and its next step is to ban polygamy.
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Why second & third wives can’t enter Islamabad Club: Discusses Pakistan’s senate committee, award to Chahat Fateh Ali Khan for ‘Bado Badi’ proposed

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The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Divisions in Pakistan debated the ban on entry of second and third wives of the members of the elite Islamabad Club
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YouTuber Armaan Malik and his 2 wives on BigBoss OTT: Actress Devoleena calls for uniform marriage laws, calls polygamy ‘filth’

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Devoleena Bhattacharjee said that the thought of having multiple marriages sounded cringe and that the TV industry was not doing the right thing by promoting such relations to the newer generation.
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