Landmark case · Family Law – II (Muslim Law and Other Personal Laws) · Semester 2

Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum

AIR 1985 SC 945 · Supreme Court of India

A divorced Muslim wife unable to maintain herself is entitled to maintenance under secular criminal procedure, which is not in conflict with Muslim personal law.

From topic

Maintenance: Shah Bano, Danial Latifi and related statute — Unit II, Family Law – II (Muslim Law and Other Personal Laws).

Related sections:

Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, 3 — Mahr and provision for divorced Muslim woman
Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, 4 — Order for payment of maintenance
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, 144 — Order for maintenance of wives, children and parents (CrPC 125)