The implementation of the UCC may lead to the rise of Love Hostels, where couples can live together without scrutiny. Creating decoy rooms and employing dialoguebaazi techniques, such as claiming to be just good friends or flatmates with occasional benefits, can help avoid being categorized as a live-in couple.
Provisions on live-in relationships open the floodgates of moral policing and severe intrusions on the privacy of citizens, especially for inter-faith and inter-caste couples
The ordinance, which is likely to be passed in the Assembly on Wednesday as the BJP has 47 members in the 70-member House, also seeks to ban polygamy and the practices of Halala and Iddat, besides making the registration of marriages compulsory for all
Section 378 of the UCC bill makes it obligatory for the man and woman, who are living in the state, regardless of whether they are residents of Uttarakhand or not, to submit a “statement of the live-in relationship” to the registrar concerned.