The enactment of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 was prompted by the…

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 was enacted in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's judgment in "Mohmd. Ahmed Khan Vs. Shah Bano Begum" (1985), which upheld a divorced Muslim woman's right to claim maintenance beyond the iddat period. In Danial Latifi v. Union of India (2001), a Constitution Bench upheld the 1986 Act by construing Section 3(1)(a) to require the former husband to make a reasonable and fair provision and maintenance within the iddat period extending for the future of the divorced wife.