Screenwriter-lyricist Javed Akhtar reacted to a Taliban law allowing husbands to beat their wives, provided it doesn't result in “broken bones or open wounds” and prescribing jail terms for women who visit relatives without their husband’s permission. "I beseech...mufties and mullahs of India to condemn it unconditionally because it...is being done in the name of...religion," Akhtar added.