Darul-Uloom Deoband, the leading Islamic seminary, defended the two Muslim women from Rajasthan, Afroz Begum and Jahan Ara, who became Qazi. The seminary said that Muslim women have the right to become Qazi, who in Islamic legal jurisprudence has the authority to function as the head of informal arbitration centres to sort out disputes related to personal laws as well as belonging to other matters.Deoband’s support for the two women came days after conservative religious clerics of Rajasthan protested against the two women from the State being awarded certificate of “Qaziat” by a Islamic training centre in Mumbai.