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From: rao@cvl.UUCP (Kambhampati Subbarao)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Supreme Court Judgement
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 15:21:48 EST
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In article <2599@sunybcs.UUCP> muppala@sunybcs.UUCP (Shankar Muppala) writes:
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>In a recent case involving payment of alimony to an ex-wife,
>the arguement put forward by the ex-husband was that they were
>Muslims and hence don't have to pay alimony according to the
>law, but according to their religion. The case was finally
>heard and the supreme court tendered a decision in favour of
>the lady involved in the divorce.

	An interesting postscript to the above case was that after having 
been honored by many feminist groups in India, the woman in question 
withdrew her writ retroactively and criticized supreme court's judgement
in her favor on the grounds that the judgement violates the religious laws of 
Islam.  The woman, above 70 yrs of age, gave a press conference from behind
a curtain and said that the elders of the mosque "convinced" her of the 
far reaching ramifications of the judgement.

	One only hopes that some sort of 'religious pressure' did not lead to 
her decision.
-rao
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