State was responding to PIL by petitioners Almasuddin Siddiqui and Ikram, who said UCC violated fundamental rights of Muslims & other citizens as guaranteed under the Constitution.
4 panellists participated in a session on democracy & equality. They warned that fundamental rights remain 'constrained by the state power' & said India is a democracy 'in retreat'.
Uttarakhand has become the first state in India to implement a UCC, aiming to simplify and standardize personal laws relating to marriage, divorce, succession, and inheritance.
With regard to divorce, the UCC brings in provisions that penalise extrajudicial divorce modes—including talaq-us-sunnat, talaq-i-biddat, khula, maba'arat, and zihar.
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.
The Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code fails to make itself modern by reinforcing the colonial provision for restitution of conjugal rights—the requirement to cohabit with one’s partner on court's order.
UUCC's criminalisation of failure to register live-in relationships and various customary religious practices will particularly impact interfaith and inter-caste couples.
The UUCC is a missed chance for the state to have undertaken the task of actually reforming and streamlining the law of succession for Hindus while aligning it with modern socio-legal realites.
Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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