The Bombay High Court ruled that a family court can legally dissolve the marriage of a Muslim couple by…

In Shaikh Taslim Shaikh Hakim v. State of Maharashtra (29 March 2022), the Bombay High Court upheld a Family Court declaration that the parties were "no more husband and wife" following mubarat. The judgment concerns recognition of their mutually effected extra-judicial divorce under section 7 of the Family Courts Act, rather than a requirement that the court itself create the divorce.