Muslim personal law board to pursue ways to overturn SC verdict on maintenance under CrPC

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Sunday said that it will “initiate all possible legal, constitutional and democratic measures” against a recent Supreme Court judgment which held that a divorced Muslim woman can file a claim for maintenance from her former husband.

The board adopted a resolution against the judgment, stating that it was “against the Islamic law [Shariah]”.

On Wednesday, a bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih held that a Muslim woman, who has been illegally divorced through triple talaq, can seek maintenance from her former husband under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.