India News: NEW DELHI: The decision of advocate Mohd Ahmed Khan, with an annual income of Rs 60,000 in the 1970s, to move the Supreme Court opposing award of a mo.
A recent decision of the High Court Division (HCD) declaring that women cannot act as
nikah/marriage registrars in Muslim marriages was subjected to considerable scrutiny. There was a writ petition challenging the validity of a decision of the law ministry cancelling a panel of selected
nikah registrars (or commonly known as kazi ) for Dinajpur s Phulbari municipality. The reason shown for cancellation was that all three selected candidates were women and in the present realities of Bangladesh, women could not be appointed as
nikah registrars . One of the selected panelists had filed the petition, which was eventually rejected by the HCD.