India, July 4 -- The Telangana High Court has corrected gender-based inequality rooted in religious personal laws - an inequality that contradicts Article 15 of the Indian Constitution, which forbids discrimination on the basis of religion, sex or caste

In recent weeks, the Telangana High Court has significantly corrected a major inequality, which happens to be prohibited by the Constitution's Article 15, i.e., discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, caste, etc.

The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, caste, sex, place of birth, so states our Constitution. For those who were born much later, it bears iteration that since 1950, when the national document was adopted, discrimination be...