印度：伊斯蘭律法不具法律效力

India's Supreme Court has ruled Sharia courts and fatwas have no legal power over the country's Muslims.

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The top court said Monday Islamic judges who interpret religious law could only rule when individuals submitted voluntarily to them, but the judges' decisions, or fatwas, are not legally binding.

The Supreme Court said no religion is allowed to curb anyone's fundamental rights.

The court's ruling was given on a petition to disband Sharia courts.

A lawyer filed the petition in 2005, citing the case of a woman who was ordered by a Sharia court to leave her husband and children to live with her father-in-law who had allegedly raped her.印度最高法院裁決，伊斯蘭律法和伊斯蘭教令對印度的穆斯林沒有法律效力。

印度高法星期一說，伊斯蘭教法官只有在個人自願請他們裁決時才能解釋宗教律法，但是這些法官下達的宗教令不具法律約束力。

最高法院說，不能允許任何宗教遏制任何人的根本權利。

在有人申訴請求解散伊斯蘭教法庭後，印度高法作出了這項裁決。

一名律師在2005年提出了這項申訴，申訴所援引的案例是一個伊斯蘭教法庭下令一名婦女離開丈夫和孩子，去跟據稱強姦了她的岳父一道生活。