Article on ‘THE JUDICIAL DECISION THAT HAD A LASTING CONSEQUENCE ON SOCIETY The Case that was the Undoing of a Great Political Party in India’ by CS Venkat R Venkitachalam, Chairman, Bizsolindia Services Pvt. Ltd. (October 2024)
Shah Bano was a Muslim woman who was married to Mohamad Ahmed Khan, an affluent and well-known advocate from Indore. As luck would have it, she turned out to be a symbol in the constitutional struggle in a disorderly intersection of religious principles and individual rights as enshrined in a liberal democracy and the gendered …