India, July 4 -- The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a series of writ petitions seeking to quash an FIR against nine people accused of rape and gang-rape under the guise of "nikah halala", including once when the woman was a minor, saying that when it comes to criminal law there is absolutely "no place for pleading personal laws".

A division bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena was hearing the three petitions challenging an FIR, registered on December 9, 2025, in Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, and the Pocso Act in Amroha district, alleging incidents of sexual exploitation spanning nearly a deca...