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From: raj@umcp-cs.UUCP (Raj Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Supreme Court Judgement
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 12:28:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 12:28:45 1985
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In article <1031@cvl.UUCP> rao@cvl.UUCP (Kambhampati Subbarao) writes:
>In article <2599@sunybcs.UUCP> muppala@sunybcs.UUCP (Shankar Muppala) writes:
>>*
>>
>>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


If not 'pressure' from religious Bosses then  why  else
do you think she changed her mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?