Cases and Fatwās Roundup

  • “By an 8-1 majority, the Federal Court [of Malaysia] ruled . . . that the Kelantan state government did not have the power to enact the laws, on offences from sodomy to sexual harassment, possession of false information, intoxication and scale measurements, because they were already covered in civil law and were the responsibility of the federal parliament.”
  • “A Muslim man has approached the Supreme Court [of India] to challenge a family court’s direction to grant interim maintenance to his divorced wife. “

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