What does faskh denote in the Indian Muslim-law context of a wife seeking dissolution?
Faskh, in this setting, is judicial dissolution at the wife’s request. Section 2 of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 provides grounds for that remedy.
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What does faskh denote in the Indian Muslim-law context of a wife seeking dissolution?
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Faskh, in this setting, is judicial dissolution at the wife’s request. Section 2 of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 provides grounds for that remedy.
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Option A
Restitution of conjugal rights is a remedy concerning cohabitation, whereas faskh dissolves the marriage.
Option B
A unilateral pronouncement by the husband does not describe the wife’s judicial remedy.
Option C
Judicial separation leaves the marriage in existence, whereas faskh ends it.
Option D
Faskh here means termination by the court at the wife’s request on a recognised ground.
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