The Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to examine a controversial question whether Muslims can be governed by secular Indian inheritance laws to deal with ancestral property rather than propaganda without giving up on faith. The judge, composed of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar, noted a request made by Naushad KK, a resident of Thrissur district in Kerala, who wanted to be governed by succession laws rather than ruled by Shariat, rather than not regarding Islam as his religious belief.
It issued a notice to the Centre and the Kerala government asking them to respond. The requested tag was ordered on the bench and tagged with similar pending cases on this issue. Earlier last April, the bench had agreed to consider the request of Safiya PM, a resident of Alappuzha, who is also the Secretary-General of the “Former Muslim in Kerala”, a non-believer Muslim woman and wants to be handled under the successor property rather than the successor law with it. Another similar plea filed by the Quran Sunnat Society in 2016 was also heard in the top courts and will now be heard together.
