Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 469 · Decided 7 July 2014
Vishwa Lochan Madan v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 469 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 195
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 386/2005
- Decided
- 7 July 2014
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
Headnote
Muslim Law - Muslim Courts - Decisions of bar-ul-Qaza A B or the Fatwa - Held: Do not satisfy any of the r~quirements of C any legal judicial system ~A Qazi or Mufti has no authority or powers to impose his opinion and·enforce his Fatwa on any one by any coercive method - Whatever may be during Mogul.or British Rule, it has no place in independent India under our Constitutional scheme - D Grievance of the petitioner that Dar-ul-Qazas and Nizam-e­ Qaza are running a parallel judicial system is misconceived - Fatwa is not a de·cree, not binding on the court or the State
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