Hyderabad, June 26 -- The Telangana high court has held that a Muslim wife has an absolute and unconditional right to dissolve her marriage through khula, and that the husband's consent is not a prerequisite for its validity. Delivering the judgment on Tuesday, a bench of justices Moushumi Bhattacharya and BR Madhusudhan Rao noted: "Since the wife's right to demand khula is absolute and does not have to be predicated on a cause or acceptance of the demand by the husband, the only role of a Court of law is to put a judicial stamp on the termination of the marriage, which then becomes binding on both parties". The bench was hearing an appeal filed by a Muslim man challenging a family court's 2024 order that had refused to nullify a 2020 divorce certificate (khulanama) issued by Sada-E-Haq Sharai Council, a non-statutory body, that mediates marital disputes in line with Islamic personal law. The bench categorically stated that obtaining a certificate of divorce from a Mufti or Dar-ul-Qaza (Islamic tribunal) is not essential to formalise a khula divorce....