NEW DELHI: Noting that inherent patriarchal discrimination is still the order of the day, Supreme Court has said gifts given by parents not only to their daughter but to the bridegroom at the time of marriage have to be returned to her if it ends in divorce. Applying a provision of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh quashed a Calcutta high court order that had allowed a man to retain the gifts given by his father-in-law. “The Constitution of India prescribes an aspiration for all, ie equality which is, obviously, yet to be achieved. Courts, in doing their bit to this end, must ground their reasoning in social justice adjudication. To put it in context, the scope and object of the 1986 Act is concerned with secur

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