Labyrinths of the law

The Delhi high court's judgment upholding the right of a 15-year-old Muslim girl to stay married and rejecting her mother's claim that she was a minor who had been abducted against her will, has set in motion a drama with which we are familiar. The script was written long ago in the course of the endless argument about Muslim personal law and polygamy and refined during the Shah Bano controversy over a divorced Muslim woman's right to maintenance.

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