The issue of polygamy comes under the ambit of both personal laws and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In India, polygamy was well-accepted traditionally, mainly in the case of a man having multiple ...

Who is allowed to have more than one wife or husband in India? Well, it depends on the religion you follow. Polygamy — the practice of having more than one spouse at the same time — has often ...

NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in an Indian state want to ban polygamy as part of a bid by the Hindu-nationalist central government to standardise the civil code across the country.

Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort including her own case before the nation’s Supreme ...

Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort, including her own case before the nation’s ...

It is most often associated with Tibet and India, where it has been practiced for centuries for a number of cultural and religious reasons. Both polygamy and polyamory are practiced around the ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort including her ...

NEW DELHI - Ms Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief on Feb 7 at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort including her own case ...