The Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Union Government has brought social reforms for all the people together irrespective of religion, caste, creed and
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments in Madhya Pradesh on the necessity of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for India resonates with the understanding that uniformity is not conformity.
Three of the PILs filed by Upadhyay deal with the issues of uniform adoption laws; uniform divorce, maintenance and alimony law; and succession and inheritance rights. The fourth one seeks transfer of petitions from various high courts to the SC on the issue of uniform minimum age for marriage for all religious communities.
In its famous Shah Bano judgment in 1985, the SC had said, “A common civil code will help the cause of national integration by removing disparate loyalties to law which have conflicting ideologies.” A decade later, in the Sarla Mudgal case, it had said, “Where more than 80% of citizens have already been brought under codified personal law, there is no justification whatsoever to keep in abeyance, any more, the introduction of uniform civil code for all citizens in India.” In its 2003 judgment in Vallamattom case, the SC had highlighted the desirability of achieving the goal set by Article 44 of the Constitution.
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.