Topic: UCC

Supreme Court ruling on 10 July held that Section 125 of the CrPC applies to all married women, including Muslims, allowing them to claim maintenance from their husbands.

BJP further asserted that 'LGBTQIA: relations are not in accord with socio-cultural mores', according to a report on stakeholder consultation made public Friday.

VHP leader Surendra Kumar Jain also talks about need to check 'demographic imbalance'. Organiser editorial had linked this to areas with 'significant Muslim population growth'.

Safiya PM wants the Supreme Court to remedy the fact that non-believers are subject to Muslim personal law.

Both former IAS officers are from 1988 batch. While Kumar has reputation of a go-getter, Sandhu is known for being non-controversial, say officers.

Through UCC, hill state has tried to bring out an act to help society develop in a better way in future, Ritu Khanduri Bhushan adds.

The UCC’s part on live-in relationships, added almost as an afterthought, introduces a novel unwanted concept of “parental consent” into consensual adult intimacy.

UCC makes it mandatory for those in live-in relationships to notify registrar under whose jurisdiction they live, stipulates jail term of up to 3 months, or fine up to Rs 10,000 or both.

Unlike UP, the rising saffron tide in Uttarakhand has gone under the radar. So it's only fitting that Uttarakhand became the first state to pass the UCC Bill and fulfill a BJP poll promise that was the next logical step in the Sangh Parivar agenda after Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

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