Anita name changed , a resident of Gurugram in Haryana, wanted to marry her boyfriend Aslam, under the Special Marriage Act, , which facilitates inter-religious marriages. However, a Haryana government rule stymied her, forcing her to knock on the doors of the Punjab and Haryana high court, where she scored a major victory last month.

In his order, Justice Rajiv Narain Raina ruled that the procedure of a court marriage ‘must reflect the mindset of the changed times in a secular nation promoting inter-religion marriages’. The Court Marriage Check List, the judge said, ‘largely violates the couple’s Right to Privacy’ and it should be simplified.

There should be nothing special about Muslim women getting good grades in a standardised exam as girls seem to do better than boys in that.

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