NEW DELHI: After entertaining a PIL seeking uniform legal provisions for grant of divorce, maintenance and alimony, the Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking enactment of uniform adoption and guardianship laws, thus bringing the issue of the framing of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) under its scrutiny.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian sought responses from Union ministries of home, law, and women and child development on the PIL seeking uniform adoption laws filed by advocate-petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay, who was also the petitioner for a uniform law on divorce and maintenance. The bench tagged the two petitions for a joint hearing on the issues, which form the core of UCC.
SC agrees to examine plea for gender & religion neutral uniform law on adoption, guardianship
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Last Updated: Jan 29, 2021, 09:26 PM IST
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A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde issued notices to union ministries of home affairs, law and justice and the women and child development on the PIL filed seeking removal of anomalies in the grounds of adoption and guardianship and making them uniform for all.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday agreed to examine a sensitive issue raised in a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to frame the gender and religion neutral uniform law on adoption and guardianship for all citizens in the country.
SC seeks Centre s response on uniform adoption, guardianship law
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New Delhi, Jan 29 : The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from Centre on a PIL seeking a gender and religion-neutral uniform law of adoption and guardianship for all citizens.
Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, in the plea, argued that state has failed to provide uniform grounds of adoption and guardianship for all citizens. The Court may direct the Law Commission of India to examine the laws of adoption & guardianship and suggest Uniform Grounds of Adoption and Guardianship in spirit of Articles 14, 15, 21, 44 within 3 months, while considering international laws & international conventions, it said.
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