India's Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Muslim Family Law

In India yesterday the Supreme Court rejected an challenge to the legality of the Muslim personal law on marriage, according to Daily India. The suit asked the Court to order the central government to promulgate a uniform marriage law for all communities, including Muslims. The suit claimed that Muslim marriage and divorce practices denied fundamental rights to Muslim women and contradicted the principles of secularism and national integration. However the Court said that any change is a matter for Parliament, and not for the Court.