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Which judgment recounts the Gauhati High Court’s disapproval in Jiauddin Ahmed of the view that…

Shamim Ara attributes that precise criticism to Baharul Islam J.’s opinion in Jiauddin Ahmed. Its separate discussion of the Kerala High Court’s decision in A. Yousuf…

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Which judgment recounts the Gauhati High Court’s disapproval in Jiauddin Ahmed of the view that capricious talaq was legally valid despite being religiously wrong?

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Shamim Ara attributes that precise criticism to Baharul Islam J.’s opinion in Jiauddin Ahmed. Its separate discussion of the Kerala High Court’s decision in A. Yousuf Rawther addresses the broader claim that a husband may divorce his wife at will. The Supreme Court also held that the husband’s bare assertion of an earlier talaq in his written statement neither proved that divorce nor effected a talaq.

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Shah Bano addressed maintenance for a divorced Muslim woman. The specified discussion of Jiauddin Ahmed appears in Shamim Ara.

Option B

Bai Tahira addressed maintenance and the effect of a payment made on divorce. Shamim Ara cites that decision separately from its account of Jiauddin Ahmed.

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Shamim Ara identifies Baharul Islam J.’s disapproval of the proposition in Jiauddin Ahmed.

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Sarabai is an earlier Bombay High Court judgment. The specified account of Jiauddin Ahmed appears in Shamim Ara.

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