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Muslim women’s right to maintenance 2024
July 20 , 2024
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- The recent Supreme Court judgment has upheld the divorced Muslim woman’s rights to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973.
- This case is known as Mohd Abdul Samad vs The State of Telangana,
- The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act was enacted in 1986 (MWA).
- This Act had created a new right for the divorced Muslim woman to claim maintenance during the iddat period as well as a fair and reasonable provision for the future.
- But this provision has contradistinction with Section 125 of the CrPC 1973.
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