Muslim Woman married to sister’s husband to get maintenance

By khabreininfo Correspondent,
New Delhi, March 23: In a ruling of far reaching consequences, the Indian Supreme Court said that a Muslim woman married to her sister’s husband should get maintenance from her husband.
Under Islamic law a man cannot marry two sisters at the same time. The husband can marry the sister of her wife only when the two have been separated or after the death of the first sister.
Two-member bench of the apex court of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J.M. Panchal while ruling on a plea of maintenance by Bismillah Begum said that she would be given maintenance by her husband. The woman who hails from Karnataka state had said that she married Chand Patel, the husband of her elder sister Mashaq Begum in 1992. The two fell apart in 2001 after the birth of their daughter.
Her husband on the other hand denied that he ever married. He also said that even if he married her "it was void from the word go and never valid as per the Muslim personal law, which forbids marriage with the wife's sister during the latter's life or continuation of her marriage".
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