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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS.564-565 OF 2015

[Arising out of SLP (Crl.) Nos. 6380-6381 of 2014]

SHAMIMA FAROOQUI

... Appellant

Versus

SHAHID KHAN

... Respondent

J U D G M E N T

Dipak Misra, J.

Leave granted.

2.

When centuries old obstructions are removed, age old shackles

are either burnt or lost their force, the chains get rusted, and the

human endowments and virtues are not indifferently treated and

emphasis is laid on “free identity” and not on “annexed identity”, and

the women of today can gracefully and boldly assert their legal rights

and refuse to be tied down to the obscurant conservatism, and

further determined to ostracize the “principle of commodity”, and the

Digitally signed by

Chetan Kumar

Date: 2015.04.06

17:15:02 IST

Reason:

Signature Not Verified

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“barter system” to devoutly engage themselves in learning, criticizing

and professing certain principles with committed sensibility and

participating in all pertinent and concerned issues, there is no

warrant or justification or need to pave the innovative multi-avenues

which the law does not countenance or giv