Right To Equality

4. What is the meaning
of right to equality?

6. In simpler words it means that
the laws apply in the same
manner to all regardless of a
persons status .This is called the
rule of law.

7. The Rule Of Law is the
foundation of any democracy. It
means that no person is above
the law. There cannot be any
distinction between a political
leader, government office and
an ordinary citizen.

8. Shayara Bano v. Union of India Coram- 5
JudgesChief Justice of India Jagdish Singh,
Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Rohinton Fali
Nariman, Justice Uday Lalit, Justice J.Abdul
Nazeer.
Facts: In this case a Muslim woman named
Shayara Bano was married to a Muslim
man named Rizwan Ahmed for fifteen year.

9. In 2016 Rizwan Ahmed divorced Shayara Bano
by invoking talaq-e-biddat, popularly known as
triple talaq. She challenge his act in the
Supreme court through a writ petition through
which she urged that Talaq e biddat, polygamy
and Nikah Halala, three acts legalized by
Muslim Personal law should be declared as
unconstitutional as they are violative of
Fundamental rights of Muslim Women as
grated to them under Article 14 and Article 15.

10. Her petition was taken up by a constitutional bench
of five judges by the Supreme court and it was
supported by the Union of India, several Women
Rights organizations and Bhartiya Muslim Mahila
Andolan. The Opposite party in this case was The
All India Muslim Personal Law Board which said that
Uncodified Personal laws are not subject to
Constitutional Judicial review.Issue: Whether the
practice of Talaq-e-biddat is violative of
Fundamental rights such as Article 14 and Article
15 of the Indian Muslim women?