Minor Muslim Girl

BJP's candidate for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, Madhavi Lata, said today that she received information that the presiding officer of the booth had caught a minor girl casting her vote.

A Muslim teenager was thrashed by a group of men at Mumbai's Bandra railway station after he was seen with a minor Hindu girl.

The Delhi High Court has upheld the six-year jail term awarded to a Muslim cleric for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a plea of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court order that a minor Muslim girl can marry a person of her choice.

The Delhi High Court has said that a girl, who has attained puberty, can marry without the consent of her parents under Muslim laws while hearing a plea seeking protection to a couple who got married against the consent of girl's parents.

Members of Pakistan's minority Sikh community staged a protest in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday against police inaction in a case involving the forcible marriage of a Sikh woman to a Muslim man.

The order was passed by Justice Jasmeet Singh while dealing with a petition by a Muslim male and a Muslim minor girl who got married to each other as per religious customs in Bihar after eloping and sought protection from the court.

Saza Faradilla was 22 when she discovered her genitals had been cut when she was a baby, part of a quietly persistent traditional practice among Singapore's minority Muslim community.

In probably the first of its kind judgment, a Pakistani court has nullified the marriage of a minor Hindu girl, who was converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man in the country's Sindh province.

The Ministry Minority Affairs has sanctioned Rs 100.99 crore to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for the construction of Boys and Girls hostel at its Off Campus Centres of Mallapuram (Kerala) and Murshidabad (West Bengal).

The Supreme Court today summoned the home secretary of Uttar Pradesh after taking note of state government's failure to respond to a plea by a "minor" Muslim girl, who has challenged the Allahabad High Court order which declared her marriage void.

The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the practice of female genital mutilation of minor girls in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, saying it violates the bodily "integrity" of a girl child.

On December 6, a viral video on social media shook the country. In the town of Rajsamand in Rajasthan, 37-year-old Shambhulal Regar was seen hacking to death and burning Afrazul, 45, a migrant labourer from West Bengal. A few hours later, Regar published a video with his 13-year-old daughter by his side, justifying his horrific crime as revenge for...

An Indian-origin woman doctor, charged with performing genital mutilation on two minor girls, has denied the allegations, saying she merely performed a religious ritual for families of a Muslim sect.

A two-member delegation of National Commission for Minorities (NCM) visited Mewat in Haryana to gather first-hand information on the murder of a couple and gang rape of two Muslim girls by alleged cow vigilantes in a village.

BJP's candidate for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, Madhavi Lata, said today that she received information that the presiding officer of the booth had caught a minor girl casting her vote.

A Muslim teenager was thrashed by a group of men at Mumbai's Bandra railway station after he was seen with a minor Hindu girl.

The Delhi High Court has upheld the six-year jail term awarded to a Muslim cleric for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a plea of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court order that a minor Muslim girl can marry a person of her choice.

The Delhi High Court has said that a girl, who has attained puberty, can marry without the consent of her parents under Muslim laws while hearing a plea seeking protection to a couple who got married against the consent of girl's parents.

Members of Pakistan's minority Sikh community staged a protest in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday against police inaction in a case involving the forcible marriage of a Sikh woman to a Muslim man.

The order was passed by Justice Jasmeet Singh while dealing with a petition by a Muslim male and a Muslim minor girl who got married to each other as per religious customs in Bihar after eloping and sought protection from the court.

Saza Faradilla was 22 when she discovered her genitals had been cut when she was a baby, part of a quietly persistent traditional practice among Singapore's minority Muslim community.

In probably the first of its kind judgment, a Pakistani court has nullified the marriage of a minor Hindu girl, who was converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man in the country's Sindh province.

The Ministry Minority Affairs has sanctioned Rs 100.99 crore to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for the construction of Boys and Girls hostel at its Off Campus Centres of Mallapuram (Kerala) and Murshidabad (West Bengal).

The Supreme Court today summoned the home secretary of Uttar Pradesh after taking note of state government's failure to respond to a plea by a "minor" Muslim girl, who has challenged the Allahabad High Court order which declared her marriage void.

The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the practice of female genital mutilation of minor girls in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, saying it violates the bodily "integrity" of a girl child.

On December 6, a viral video on social media shook the country. In the town of Rajsamand in Rajasthan, 37-year-old Shambhulal Regar was seen hacking to death and burning Afrazul, 45, a migrant labourer from West Bengal. A few hours later, Regar published a video with his 13-year-old daughter by his side, justifying his horrific crime as revenge for...

An Indian-origin woman doctor, charged with performing genital mutilation on two minor girls, has denied the allegations, saying she merely performed a religious ritual for families of a Muslim sect.

A two-member delegation of National Commission for Minorities (NCM) visited Mewat in Haryana to gather first-hand information on the murder of a couple and gang rape of two Muslim girls by alleged cow vigilantes in a village.