The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a private religious body functioning as a Sharia court does not have the status or authority of a legally established court to grant a divorce.
The court declared void an order passed by a Sharia court in Raipur, which had declared a woman divorced from her husband, holding that such private religious institutions may offer religious opinions but cannot judicially determine marital rights or dissolve a marriage through binding orders
