Fundamental rights - Electronic Gurudev

The newly amended citizenship act (CAA) has aroused fear among Indian citizens that it will deny citizenship to the existing Muslim minority communities in India. However, if one to dive deep into details of this act then it is clear, that it only aims to provide Indian citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities of our neighboring countries i.e. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, provided they entered India before December 31, 2014. Since these countries are Islamic state and roughly 95% of their population is Muslim, hence only their minorities had been named in this bill. The passing of the CAB bill raised a lot of questions like - what is CAA, how is it different from NRC, will it be discriminatory against the Muslim Community and will it lead to deportation of the min...

The Allahabad High Court has come down strongly on the issue of triple talaq, saying the rights of a person cannot be violated under the name of "personal law". The court expressed this opinion while hearing a case involving a divorce granted through the contentious practice of triple talaq. https://twitter.com/ANINewsUP/status/861833861994496000 https://twitter.com/ANINewsUP/status/861835821749477376 Muslim men cannot separate from their wives following this practice, the court said, calling triple talaq against the constitutional right of equality. The court also said that personal law may be applicable only within the purview of the Constitution, and that a fatwa, which is contrary to the justice system, is not valid. "No fatwa can be contrary to someone's rights," the court sai...

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Fundamental rights cannot be violated under the name of “personal law”: Allahabad High Court