Let us decide the status of woman married to outsider: J-K

The J-K government has filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court against the ruling of a high court that had ordered an end to the discrimination meted out to women residents of the state who were married to men from outside the state.

Contesting the high court order, the state has asserted that the government should be the final authority in deciding who is a bonafide resident. The HC judgement had come 21 years after a legal battle was launched by the affected women against a law that nullifies a woman’s status as a state subject after her marriage to an ‘‘outsider’’.