Muslim women raising hopes from Supreme Court

Ashish Tiwari
Saurabh Sharma 

Supreme Court in New Delhi, not too far from his home in Ghaziabad, is readying to hear from Thursday a clutch of petitions on the issue that is at the centre of a tussle between orthodoxy and reform in the community–the former upholding its validity under the Shariat and the latter saying that it is regressive, anti-women and had no place in Islam.

The apex court will also hear petitions challenging the validity of polygamy and nikah halala under which a divorced Muslim woman has to marry again, consummate the marriage and then break it if she wants to go back to her first husband.