Is Amendment to Marriage Act a Precursor to Uniform Civil Code?
2 years, 11 months ago

Is Amendment to Marriage Act a Precursor to Uniform Civil Code?

News 18  

The Modi government has stoked yet another controversy by introducing the Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, which seeks to raise the marriageable age of women to 21 years, making it uniform for both women and men. Since various Opposition parties, Muslim officials, and Muslim clerics have declared resistance to the notion, they say, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh will be able to garner support among women, particularly Muslim females. Several Muslim personal laws, most notably the Triple Talaq, have been deemed unlawful on several occasions by the Supreme Court and High Courts of the country. According to a 1931 study, more than 3.2 million women died during pregnancy or at the time of delivery owing to child marriage, which was higher than the entire number of deaths during World War I, because their bodies could not take the labour due to their young age.

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Contention over Himachal Pradesh govt. bringing in law for marriage age as Congress’ State unit ‘unaware’ of legislation
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Contention over Himachal Pradesh govt. bringing in law for marriage age as Congress’ State unit ‘unaware’ of legislation

The Hindu  

Even as the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh recently passed a Bill increasing the marriageable age of women to 21 years from 18 years, State Congress president Pratibha Singh on Friday said she was “unaware” of the legislation before it was brought in the Assembly. The State government’s move is significant as the Congress had in 2021 opposed ‘The Prohibition …

What does Himachal Pradesh’s Bill raising women’s minimum marriage age entail? | Explained
3 months, 3 weeks ago

What does Himachal Pradesh’s Bill raising women’s minimum marriage age entail? | Explained

The Hindu  

The Himachal Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday passed a Bill raising the minimum marriageable age for women from 18 to 21 years. Thus, it is proposed to amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 and other related Acts in their application to the State of Himachal Pradesh and increase the minimum age for marriage for girls to 21 years,” the …

What’s The New Minimum Age Of Marriage For Women In Himachal Pradesh? Is It Applicable To All? Bill Explained
3 months, 3 weeks ago

What’s The New Minimum Age Of Marriage For Women In Himachal Pradesh? Is It Applicable To All? Bill Explained

News 18  

The Himachal Pradesh Assembly has passed a bill that increases the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years in order to support gender equality and higher education. Thus, it is proposed to amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 and other related Acts in their application to the State of Himachal Pradesh and increase the …

Legally Speaking | The quest for equality, which is at the heart of the Uttarakhand UCC bill, is flawed
10 months, 1 week ago

Legally Speaking | The quest for equality, which is at the heart of the Uttarakhand UCC bill, is flawed

Hindustan Times  

Uttarakhand's Uniform Civil Code bill, recently passed by the state assembly session, has been a subject of intense discussion. While criminal laws apply to all Indian citizens without regard to religion, caste, race, or creed, distinct religious communities are governed by independent religious laws known as personal laws in case of civil matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship, succession, …

Man allegedly raped wife's minor sister, then claimed he married her too. Delhi HC acquits citing Muslim law
1 year, 4 months ago

Man allegedly raped wife's minor sister, then claimed he married her too. Delhi HC acquits citing Muslim law

Firstpost  

The incident came to light through a first information report filed by the child’s mother, asserting that during October and November 2014, while the child was alone, the accused visited their residence four to five times and committed sexual assault The Delhi High Court has recently reaffirmed the acquittal of a Muslim man who had been accused of sexually assaulting …

Will Modi’s Uniform Civil Code kill Indian ‘secularism’?
1 year, 4 months ago

Will Modi’s Uniform Civil Code kill Indian ‘secularism’?

Al Jazeera  

Indian PM Narendra Modi says common personal laws will help women, but many fear the proposal is a political weapon to portray Muslims and other religious minorities as regressive. Proponents of a UCC argue, as Modi did in a June speech to party workers, that a modern nation has no need for “dual laws” and that a common civil code …

News18 UCC Survey: Why I, a Muslim Woman, Am All For Uniform Civil Code - News18
1 year, 5 months ago

News18 UCC Survey: Why I, a Muslim Woman, Am All For Uniform Civil Code - News18

News 18  

The Uniform Civil Code is an embodiment of Article 44 of the Indian Constitution which seeks the implementation of a uniform set of laws, governing the personal affairs of citizens, pertaining to the institution of marriage and the ancillary rights arising out of the same such as inheritance, alimony, guardianship and adoption, amongst others with the sole object of national …

What Are All India Muslim Personal Law Board's Various Objections Against Uniform Civil Code? Read Here
1 year, 5 months ago

What Are All India Muslim Personal Law Board's Various Objections Against Uniform Civil Code? Read Here

Live Law  

All India Muslim Personal Law Board has submitted its response to the Law Commission's public notice with respect to the Uniform Civil Code and said that it is reasonably apprehended by the Muslims in India that the raking of the topic of UCC is with the objective of putting the system of Muslim personal law in peril. Gender Equality Gaps …

From the India Today archives (2022) | How a Uniform Civil Code could impact marriages
1 year, 5 months ago

From the India Today archives (2022) | How a Uniform Civil Code could impact marriages

India Today  

On April 22, Union home minister Amit Shah, while addressing a BJP meeting in Bhopal, reportedly told his colleagues that it was time to focus on the Uniform Civil Code. IMPACT OF UCC ON MARRIAGES A common law can fix minimum legal age for marriage, abolish bigamy and polygamy and encourage interfaith marriages 1. Special provisions the UCC may abolish …

Strike a fine balance, have a just civil code
1 year, 6 months ago

Strike a fine balance, have a just civil code

The Hindu  

June 24, 2023 12:16 am | Updated 10:30 am IST On June 14, the Law Commission of India decided to solicit views and proposals from the public about the Uniform Civil Code. Even reformed Hindu Personal Law under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 does insist on solemnisation of marriage, through saptapadi and datta. Surprisingly when two Hindus marry under the …

SMA rules must be reconsidered
1 year, 8 months ago

SMA rules must be reconsidered

Hindustan Times  

The fractious question of interfaith relationships was first legislated in India in the second half of the 19th century as sweeping reformist movements such as Brahmo Samaj petitioned the British government to find a path forward for couples separated by religion, and the diktat of their strict customary laws. From the swirling debate around the reformation of the Hindu personal …

In legal fight for love, petitioners look to Supreme Court for same-sex marriage sanction
1 year, 8 months ago

In legal fight for love, petitioners look to Supreme Court for same-sex marriage sanction

The Hindu  

A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court is set to hear the petitions on April 18, 2023. It is then upon the aggrieved members of society, the victims of the current marriage regime, to go to court and say the laws as they stand today are violative of the Constitution, and therefore the court is absolutely the right forum for …

Centre opposes recognition of same-sex marriage in Supreme Court citing personal laws, societal values
1 year, 9 months ago

Centre opposes recognition of same-sex marriage in Supreme Court citing personal laws, societal values

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The Centre has opposed in the Supreme Court a batch of pleas seeking legal validation of same-sex marriage, saying it would cause a complete havoc with the delicate balance of personal laws and in accepted societal values. The Centre said, “It is submitted that despite the decriminalisation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the petitioners cannot …

Parliament can amend the law to provide uniform marriage age: Supreme Court
1 year, 10 months ago

Parliament can amend the law to provide uniform marriage age: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

Noting that there are some matters which should be left to the “ultimate wisdom of the Parliament”, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking to enhance the minimum age of marriage of women from 18 years to 21 years, on par with men. Mr. Upadhyay had sought the court to strike down 18 years as the minimum age …

Explained | Why is the Supreme Court examining marriage laws for minors?
1 year, 10 months ago

Explained | Why is the Supreme Court examining marriage laws for minors?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court announced that it would examine whether minor girls, as young as 15 years, can marry on the basis of custom or personal law when such marriages are considered an offence in statutory law. On January 13, the Supreme Court said it would examine whether girls as young as 15 years …

Supreme Court to examine whether girls aged 15 can be married off under Muslim personal law when statutes make it an offence
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court to examine whether girls aged 15 can be married off under Muslim personal law when statutes make it an offence

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on January 13 decided to examine whether girls as young as 15 years can enter into wedlock on the basis of custom or personal law when such marriages constitute an offence in statutory law. Chandrachud issued a formal notice on the petition filed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights against a recent order of …

75 Years After Partition, Hindus Still Treated Like Second-Class Citizens in Indian Subcontinent
1 year, 11 months ago

75 Years After Partition, Hindus Still Treated Like Second-Class Citizens in Indian Subcontinent

News 18  

On 5 January, Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance tabled its annual report of atrocities on Bangladeshi minorities. Pakistan didn’t even have a legal provision to register Hindu marriages until 2017 when a law was passed in the Pakistani senate. Seventy-five years have passed since Partition but even today certain rights such as divorce, adoption and inheritance evade Hindus of Pakistan. …

SC seeks Centre’s response on NCW’s plea seeking uniform marriageable age
2 years ago

SC seeks Centre’s response on NCW’s plea seeking uniform marriageable age

Firstpost  

The petition, which cited a recent decision of the Delhi High Court allowing a minor Muslim girl’s marriage on the ground that it is permitted under the Muslim personal law, sought equal application of penal laws to Muslim women who were married off before attaining the age of majority New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s response on …

Supreme Court Issues Notice On NCW Plea Challenging Muslim Personal Law Allowing Minor Girls To Marry On Attaining Puberty
2 years ago

Supreme Court Issues Notice On NCW Plea Challenging Muslim Personal Law Allowing Minor Girls To Marry On Attaining Puberty

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Friday, issued notice in a plea filed by National Commission for Women for enforcement of fundamental rights of minor Muslim women seeking uniform application of penal laws to Muslim women, who contract marriage before attaining the age of majority, irrespective of what is professed in personal laws. The petition notes that the 'minimum' age of marriage' …

SC seeks Centre's response to plea for uniform age of marriage for women, irrespective of religion
2 years ago

SC seeks Centre's response to plea for uniform age of marriage for women, irrespective of religion

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response to a plea by the National Commission for Women, seeking a "uniform age of marriage" for women, irrespective of their religion or personal laws. The NCW has pointed out that the minimum age of marriage' under various personal laws is consistent with the prevailing penal laws, except in the Muslim Personal …

Can a Hindu Man Marry Two Women? As Maha 'Twin' Wedding Shocks, a Look at Marriage Laws
2 years ago

Can a Hindu Man Marry Two Women? As Maha 'Twin' Wedding Shocks, a Look at Marriage Laws

News 18  

The video clip of two twin women marrying a man in Maharashtra made headlines yesterday. There is the Hindu Marriage Act from 1955 for Hindus, the Muslim Personal Law Application Act 1937 for Muslims, the Indian Christian Marriage Act 1872 for Christians, and the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act 1936 for Parsis. According to a report by Indian Kanoon, “any …

Hindus should marry young like Muslims: Assam's Badruddin Ajmal
2 years ago

Hindus should marry young like Muslims: Assam's Badruddin Ajmal

India Today  

Hindus should adopt the "Muslim formula" and get their children married at a young age, All India United Democratic Front chief Badruddin Ajmal said on Friday, reported news agency ANI. About claims that the Muslim population is increasing in the country, the AIUDF chief said, “After the age of 40, they get married under parental pressure. The AIUDF chief also …

Before Implementing Uniform Civil Code, Important to Make Secular Laws Gender Just
2 years, 1 month ago

Before Implementing Uniform Civil Code, Important to Make Secular Laws Gender Just

News 18  

The Kerala High Court recently upheld an Indian Muslim woman’s right to demand ‘khula’ or separation from her husband without his consent. Just a day before that the Karnataka High Court had observed that a minor Muslim girl’s marriage after attaining puberty contravenes the provisions of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, adding that the POCSO Act that’s meant …

Muslim girls above 15 years can marry, it would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act: Punjab and Haryana HC cite Sharia law
2 years, 1 month ago

Muslim girls above 15 years can marry, it would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act: Punjab and Haryana HC cite Sharia law

Op India  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently reaffirmed that a Muslim girl who reaches the age of 15 can marry whoever she wants, and such a marriage would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act. In his order, Justice Vikas Bahl stated, “Such a marriage would not be void in terms of Section 12 of the Prohibition of Child …

Can Minor Muslim Girl Marry On Attaining Puberty? Supreme Court To Examine Correctness Of HC Judgment, Issues Notice On NCPCR Plea
2 years, 2 months ago

Can Minor Muslim Girl Marry On Attaining Puberty? Supreme Court To Examine Correctness Of HC Judgment, Issues Notice On NCPCR Plea

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on the petition filed by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights challenging a recent judgement of the Punjab and Haryana High Court which held that a 16-year-old Muslim girl can enter into a valid marriage.A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka appointed Senior Advocate R Rajasekhar …

Delhi HC cites Sharia to justify child marriage, calls a 15-year-old's marriage legal
2 years, 4 months ago

Delhi HC cites Sharia to justify child marriage, calls a 15-year-old's marriage legal

Op India  

The Delhi High Court recently justified child marriage by upholding the legality of a 15-year-old minor girl’s marriage, stating that she is of ‘Marriageable Age’ under Islamic Sharia Law. Granting protection to the couple, the Court observed: “It is thus clear that as per Mohammedan Law girl who had attained the age of puberty could marry without the consent of …

Minor girl can marry without parents consent under Muslim Personal Law, says Delhi HC
2 years, 4 months ago

Minor girl can marry without parents consent under Muslim Personal Law, says Delhi HC

India Today  

The Delhi High Court, while hearing a case on Tuesday, observed that as per the Muslim Personal Law, a minor girl who has attained puberty can marry without her parents’ consent. The court rejected arguments that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act might be applied in such cases and said the act’s objective is to ensure that children …

What India must learn from Bangladesh’s attempts to reform child marriage law
2 years, 4 months ago

What India must learn from Bangladesh’s attempts to reform child marriage law

Hindustan Times  

The Bill has been brought forward on the assumption that raising the legal age will eradicate the practice of child marriage. The research project sought to determine how knowledge of the law changed behaviours and attitudes towards child marriage in rural areas of Bangladesh. The study found that providing individuals with information about a new law did impact individuals’ attitudes …

Muslim girl aged above 15 competent for marriage: Punjab and Haryana High Court
2 years, 6 months ago

Muslim girl aged above 15 competent for marriage: Punjab and Haryana High Court

The Hindu  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that a Muslim girl above 15 years of age is competent to enter into a contract of marriage with a person of her choice. Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi’s assertion came during a petition filed by a Muslim couple, who fell in love and solemnised their marriage on June 6, 2022, as per …

Punjab and Haryana HC cites Sharia to justify child marriage
2 years, 6 months ago

Punjab and Haryana HC cites Sharia to justify child marriage

Op India  

On Monday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled that a Muslim girl above the age of 16 years is competent to marry any person of her choice. Observations made by the Punjab and Haryana High Court The Court ruled that a Muslim marriage is governed by the Muslim personal law, which allows marriage above the age of 16 years. …

The importance of consent: The Hindu Editorial on marital rape
2 years, 7 months ago

The importance of consent: The Hindu Editorial on marital rape

The Hindu  

A split verdict in the Delhi High Court on the question of criminalising marital rape has reignited the controversy over legal protection for disregard of consent for sex within marriage. On Wednesday, while Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the Bench, struck down as unconstitutional the exception to Section 375 of the IPC, which says that intercourse by a man with …

Parliament panel to examine Bill proposing marriage age change on Wednesday
2 years, 8 months ago

Parliament panel to examine Bill proposing marriage age change on Wednesday

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports would examine the Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill in its first meeting on April 13. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, 2021 proposes to amend the existing law to bring parity at the minimum marriageable age for men and women. The Bill will also affect laws relating …

Increasing legal age of marriage to 21: Is it a boon or a bane for Indian women?
2 years, 9 months ago

Increasing legal age of marriage to 21: Is it a boon or a bane for Indian women?

Live Mint  

Mahima was married off a few days after she turned 16. However, in 1978, an amendment was passed under the Child Marriage Restraint Act to increase the marriageable age for girls to 18. Now, to bring women on equal footing with men, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government has decided to raise the legal age of marriage of women to …

Why Hindus Losing Benefits for Uniform Civil Code is Unacceptable
2 years, 10 months ago

Why Hindus Losing Benefits for Uniform Civil Code is Unacceptable

News 18  

Last evening, I came across an ingeniously authored article by someone I venerate for his scholarship. Titled ‘If Uniform Civil Code Means Hindus Losing Benefits Like Hindu Undivided Family, So Be It’, the arguments proffered were acceptable, coherent, and didn’t fall flat on logic, except that Hindus may have to lose benefits for bringing in the Uniform Civil Code. For …

Is it right to increase the age of marriage of women to 21?
2 years, 11 months ago

Is it right to increase the age of marriage of women to 21?

The Hindu  

In the recent session of Parliament, the government introduced the Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, 2021, to raise the age of marriage for women from 18 years to 21 years. Noorjehan Safia Niaz: The main concern of this law is not so much about equality but to raise the age of marriage for women to 21 years. Noorjehan Safia Niaz: …

Absurd to Think Men Won’t Do Justice, Says Parl Panel Chief After Row Over Only 1 Woman MP in Committee
2 years, 11 months ago

Absurd to Think Men Won’t Do Justice, Says Parl Panel Chief After Row Over Only 1 Woman MP in Committee

News 18  

In the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, of the 31 members who would be examining the Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill that was introduced in Lok Sabha during the winter session, only one is woman lawmaker. “The committee has the mandate to scrutinise the Bill but it will not be done without consulting the stakeholders …

Parliamentary panel on marriage age has only one woman MP
2 years, 11 months ago

Parliamentary panel on marriage age has only one woman MP

The Hindu  

The parliamentary panel assigned to examine the landmark bill which seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women to 21 has only one woman MP out of 31 members. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, which will have wider influence over society especially females, was introduced in Lok Sabha during the winter session and referred to the Parliamentary …

The ideal age of marriage, according to neuroscience
2 years, 11 months ago

The ideal age of marriage, according to neuroscience

Live Mint  

The Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, 2021, which seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women in India from 18 to 21, has recently been introduced in Parliament by the government. Now, with the government’s decision to raise their marriage age to 21, the gap between a girl attaining puberty and getting married has widened a bit more. …

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill has a flawed notion of gender justice
2 years, 11 months ago

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill has a flawed notion of gender justice

The Hindu  

It has become a habit of sorts for the National Democratic Alliance government to usher in legislation that either no one wants or that defies logic. Therefore, there has been a steady increase in enrolment in higher education by women even when the legal age of marriage was set at 18. If 40.8 per cent women were married off before …

Muslim Girl Free to Marry on Attaining Puberty, Says Punjab & Haryana HC on Plea by 17-year-old
2 years, 11 months ago

Muslim Girl Free to Marry on Attaining Puberty, Says Punjab & Haryana HC on Plea by 17-year-old

News 18  

A Muslim girl is free to marry anyone of her choice once she attains puberty, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said while ordering the police to protect a 17-year-old Muslim girl who married a 33-year-old Hindu man against the wishes of her family. Justice Harnaresh Singh Gill made the observation while hearing a protection plea filed by the …

Age and marriage, what the government says, what the laws prescribe
2 years, 11 months ago

Age and marriage, what the government says, what the laws prescribe

The Hindu  

December 26, 2021 11:00 am | Updated 11:02 am IST Will raising the marriage age for women empower them? That might sound possible at first glance, but seen against the backdrop of increasing social and state control over marriage, the proposed law may be disturbing. Raising the age of marriage and age of consent have both been considered as progressive …

Law to raise marriage age causes a flutter in western U.P.
2 years, 11 months ago

Law to raise marriage age causes a flutter in western U.P.

The Hindu  

The Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, 2021, which seeks to increase the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, has begun to show its socio-political impact in western Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Jaglan, who is known for advocating the “Selfie with daughter” initiative, has been holding such panchayats in Haryana and Rajasthan, and said it was the …

Not all Muslims oppose marriage bill
3 years ago

Not all Muslims oppose marriage bill

The Hindu  

While Muslim political parties have opposed amendments to the child marriage law to raise the age at marriage for women to 21, terming them an attack on personal laws, voices within the community advocating equal rights, have welcomed the move. It also says that it will over ride all personal laws — section 2 of the Amendment Bill states that …

As a Kashmiri Woman, I Find Move to Raise Legal Marriage Age a Bold Step towards Gender Equality
3 years ago

As a Kashmiri Woman, I Find Move to Raise Legal Marriage Age a Bold Step towards Gender Equality

News 18  

In India, the legal age of marriage for women has been 18 years since 1978. The move by the Government of India to increase the legal marriage age for women to 21—a change after 43 years—and bring it on a par with men can revolutionise the approach to address deep-seated socio-economic and cultural issues and boost women’s economic status in …

'Aimless, uneducated girls will go astray if not married soon': Nuh Bar Association president
3 years ago

'Aimless, uneducated girls will go astray if not married soon': Nuh Bar Association president

Op India  

As fundamentalist and regressive forces continue to oppose the Centre’s proposal to raise the age of legal marriage for women from 18 to 21, Sajid, the president of Nuh District Bar Association said that “aimless and uneducated women” would transgress if they remain unmarried till the age of 21. But those who have no aim, are uneducated, are considered ‘burden’ …

Amendments to marriage age contradict other laws
3 years ago

Amendments to marriage age contradict other laws

The Hindu  

The amendments proposed to the anti-child marriage law defines a child as someone under the age of 21 years and contradicts laws where the legal age of competence is recognised as 18 years. Senior advocate Indira Jaising tweeted: “How patronising and patriarchal to call someone over the age of 18 a ‘child’, ready and fit to vote but not to …

Raising Legal Marriage Age for Women is Not the Silver Bullet for India’s Child Marriage Problem
3 years ago

Raising Legal Marriage Age for Women is Not the Silver Bullet for India’s Child Marriage Problem

News 18  

The welcome move of change in minimum age of marriage in India has once again trained the focus on women and the shackles they have to face in the society. The age of marriage was addressed for the first time through the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, also known as the Sarda Act, which finalised the minimum marriageable age …

Lok Sabha refers marriage bill to panel for further scrutiny
3 years ago

Lok Sabha refers marriage bill to panel for further scrutiny

Live Mint  

A bill seeking to bring legal marriageable age for women at par with that of men was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid massive protest by the opposition and was referred to a parliamentary panel for further scrutiny by the Lower House following a voice vote. Invoking different marriage laws of different faiths, I rise to introduce the …

Raising Marriage Age of Women to 21 to Enable Them to Make Decisions, Be Self-Reliant: Bill - News18
3 years ago

Raising Marriage Age of Women to 21 to Enable Them to Make Decisions, Be Self-Reliant: Bill - News18

News 18  

The move to raise the minimum marriage of women to 21 is aimed towards the empowerment of women, gender equality, increasing the female labour force participation, making them self-reliant and “to enable them to take decisions themselves”, the government has said in the ‘Statement of Objects and Reasons’ of the bill introduced in Parliament. The bill says the amendments in …

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