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Indian state to ban polygamy amid bid for uniform civil code
NEW DELHI: Authorities in an Indian state want to ban polygamy as part of a bid by the Hindu-nationalist central government to standardise the civil code across the country.Polygamy, the practice of having more than one spouse, is illegal under the Indian Penal Code but Muslim men are allowed to have up to four wives under sharia Islamic law, and polygamy also exists in many tribal communities.“I plan to ban polygamy in Assam,” Himanta Biswa Sarma, chief minister Assam state in the northeast, told reporters yesterday.“We want to make this a consensus-building process rather than some kind of a provocation,” said Sarma, a senior member of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).The centra

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