Under the law as applied in India, the conversion to Islam of a non-Muslim wife whose husband is a…

Indian courts have held, for example in Robasa Khanum v. Khodadad Bomanji Irani (Bombay High Court, 1946), that the conversion of a non-Muslim wife to Islam "Shall not ipso facto dissolve her marriage" with her non-Muslim husband. The marriage continues until it is dissolved by a competent court under the law that governs it; neither a Qazi's permission nor the mere fact of conversion dissolves it.