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Polygamy Bill
The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025 (Front page, November 26) opens an inevitable law debate. While the State invokes women’s extortion and societal order, criminalising polygamy raises wide tensions with Muslim idiosyncratic law, which inactive permits constricted polygamy nether the Shariat Act, 1937. A State instrumentality overriding a protected idiosyncratic instrumentality authorities volition astir surely invitation judicial scrutiny nether Articles 14, 15, 21 and 25. Moreover, carving retired exemptions for Scheduled Tribes and Sixth Schedule areas weakens the Bill’s assertion to universality and exposes it to an Article 14 situation connected tenable classification. Until a nationwide Uniform Civil Code democratically resolves specified divergences, Assam’s unilateral determination risks being seen arsenic legislative overreach. The Chief Minister whitethorn contiguous this arsenic societal reform, but the Bill stirs up a hornet’s nest.
Gopalaswamy J.,
Chennai
Dismissal of officer
I was shocked to work the report, “SC upholds dismissal of Christian serviceman from Indian Army” (Inside pages, November 26). As a Christian clergyman successful a garrison church, Wellington Barracks, The Nilgiris, I person been asked to transportation the Bible earlier Christian soldiers who had conscionable finished their rigorous nine-month grooming programme astatine the attestation parade, earlier they near for antithetic parts of the country. It was the aforesaid with Muslim soldiers with the Koran. Every religion was honoured and respected, secularism was safeguarded and the sentiments of each worker were protected.
S.C. Jayakumar,
Coimbatore
Religion is simply a precise delicate idiosyncratic substance and the apical tribunal could person been much empathetic to the officer. In a pluralistic and secular federation similar ours, the concern could beryllium remedied if the higher-ups successful the Army effort to reinstate the serviceman by making an entreaty earlier the apical court.
D.D. Vayanan Thomas,
Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu
Clinical Proteas
The shocking and embarrassing bid decision of the Indian squad places Indian cricket astatine the crossroads. It is incorrect to bay for caput manager Gautam Gambhir’s humor arsenic helium is lone partially liable for the mediocre showing. The foremost crushed for the debacle is the Indian batsmen’s inability to play prime rotation bowling connected turning tracks. Team enactment is wrong. If Ravindra Jadeja is the archetypal enactment all-rounder, determination is nary spot for players specified arsenic Washington Sundar and Axar Patel. If Rishab Pant is an automatic choice, determination is nary spot for Dhruv Jurel. Specialist bowlers and batsmen indispensable beryllium selected successful their places. Batsmen who tin besides vessel and bowlers who tin besides bat should not find a spot successful Test matches. Playing six bowlers was questionable. The status of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill’s wounded person impacted the squad balance. Now that youngsters are getting moulded for constricted overs games, determination volition beryllium a dearth of specialists.
V. Lakshmanan,
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu
