— India Express:
— “The AIMPLB believes the judgment reopens an issue that was settled during the Rajiv Gandhi regime in 1986 when Parliament enacted the Muslim Women Act after protests from Muslims against the Supreme Court verdict, which had awarded maintenance to Shah Bano in 1985.”
— “In the recent judgment, delivered on December 4, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices Deepak Verma and Sudarshan Reddy upheld the right of a divorced Muslim woman Shabana Babo to get maintenance from her husband.”
— Maulana Khalid Rashid of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB): “The Supreme Court judgment is a direct interference in Muslim personal law. It is also against the Shariat, which states that marriage is a contract between two individuals and it becomes null and void after divorce.”