{"id":13357,"date":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/27\/india-s-supreme-court-fatwas-have-no-legal-backing-can-t-be-forced-on-people\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-supreme-court-fatwas-have-no-legal-backing-can-t-be-forced-on-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/27\/india-s-supreme-court-fatwas-have-no-legal-backing-can-t-be-forced-on-people\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Supreme Court: Fatwas Have No Legal Backing, Can&#8217;t Be Forced On People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Fatwas-have-no-legal-backing-cant-be-forced-on-people-SC\/articleshow\/31009739.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 26, 2014 (Times Of India): In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday assured it would come to the rescue of any citizen who felt harassed by a fatwa issued by a Muslim cleric and said such fatwas had no sanction in law. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices C.K. Prasad and P.C. Ghose made it clear that the judiciary could redress a fatwa while hearing final arguments on a PIL by Vishwa Lochan Madan, drawing the court&#8217;s attention to parallel Shariat courts that were mushrooming in India. Madan sought a declaration that such fatwas were illegal. <\/p>\n<p>The bench said fatwas and dictates by muftis had no sanction in law. &#8220;Anything not sanctioned by the law need not be taken cognizance by anyone. The muftis can take up any issue and dictate a fatwa. But this will be akin to any common man&#8217;s view on an issue,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someone voluntarily follows the fatwas or directions of the religious figures, it is purely up to them. But can these dictates, fatwa or religious head&#8217;s directions, be enforced in a court of law? If someone is punished for not obeying the fatwa, then the judiciary is there to set right that wrong,&#8221; the bench said. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 26, 2014 (Times Of India): In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday assured,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}