MUMBAI: Almost 83% of beneficiaries of the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana are married women, according to an analysis of around 2.5 crore beneficiaries of the scheme. Unmarried women account for 11.8% of beneficiaries while widows account for 4.7%.Divorced, destitute and deserted women collectively account for less than 1% of beneficiaries, data shows. Divorced…
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that Parliament was compelled to enact a law in 2019 to make Muslim men who instantaneously divorce their wives through ‘triple talaq‘ liable to imprisonment as the SC’s 2017 ruling declaring it unconstitutional did not prove to be a deterrent against such unilateral sudden…
NEW DELHI: Reinforcing married women’s right over ‘streedhan’, Supreme Court on Wednesday held that streedhan cannot become joint property of a couple, and a husband has no control over his wife’s assets, which he may use during times of distress but must return to her. Adjudicating a matrimonial dispute over streedhan, a bench of Justices…
