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 ...

Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian ... has opened a chasm between women in India’s largest religious minority, even among some ...

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board called the code impractical and a direct threat to a multi-religious Indian society. “Banning polygamy makes little sense, because data shows very few Muslim ...

NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in an Indian state want to ban polygamy as part of a bid ... a senior member of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The central government ...

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 ...

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday expressed concern over the misuse of polygamy under the guise of Muslim personal law, stating that the Quran's conditional allowance for multiple marriages is now ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pressing for the speedy implementation of a Uniform Civil Code as envisioned by Directive Principle 44 of the Constitution, claiming a nation like India cannot ...

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