Indian court rules that per Muslim common law, woman returning to earlier faith can end marriage if she likes

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This is what it looks like when Sharia takes root in a non-Muslim country. Oklahoma voters, take note.

In Islam, woman returning to earlier faith can end marriage if she likes: Delhi high court
May 12, 2014

NEW DELHI: Interpreting a 75-year-old law, Delhi high court has held that a non-Muslim woman who embraces Islam after marriage but reconverts to her original faith can dissolve the union due to apostasy.

Granting divorce under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 to Sultana (name changed), a division bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and ​Justice Najmi Waziri also clarified there is no requirement in such circumstances for a woman who leaves the pale of Islam to prove her act in a trial. The mere act of apostasy dissolves the marriage if she so desires.

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The HC was hearing an appeal filed by the husband Asif ... Asif contested Sultana's reconversion back to Hinduism ... Asif also cited Section 4 of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act to contend that it prohibits dissolution of marriage only on the ground of apostasy.

On her part, the estranged wife argued that for her reconversion to Hinduism no evidence is required to be led, as her mere statement 'ipso facto' amounts to abjuration of Islam and its tenets. She also filed an affidavit admitting to her apostasy along with two fatwas from two mufti.

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The HC ... rejected Asif's argument that Sultana would have to prove her apostasy.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/In-Islam-woman-returning-to-earlier-faith-can-end-marriage-if-she-likes-Delhi-high-court/articleshow/34990894.cms

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Today I learned a new word. Let's see how long I remember it. I think I knew it before, but I forgot.

[mota bhai 2,675]

abjuration?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

abjuration?

[mota bhai 2,675]

apostasy?

ipso facto?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Apostasy. I didn't know what abjuration meant either, but I can get it from the context.

[JohnR! 5,495]

This is what it looks like when Sharia takes root in a non-Muslim country. Oklahoma voters, take note.

Is Oklahoma seceding and joining India?