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AIMPLB to challenge UCC in Uttarakhand, SC ruling on maintenance
5 months, 1 week ago

AIMPLB to challenge UCC in Uttarakhand, SC ruling on maintenance

Hindustan Times  

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has decided to challenge the recent Supreme Court ruling mandating the payment of maintenance to Muslim divorcee women beyond the period of “Iddat” before a larger bench. The board’s legal committee, after going through the Supreme Court order, has resolved to explore all possible legal avenues to defend Muslim personal laws. AIMPLB member …

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Shah reiterates UCC pledge, continues to find fault with Cong’s ‘pro-Muslim policies’
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Shah reiterates UCC pledge, continues to find fault with Cong’s ‘pro-Muslim policies’

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday reiterated the promise of implementing the Uniform Civil Code nationally along the lines of Uttarakhand if they are voted back to power for a third time this summer even as he continued to find fault with Congress’s alleged pro-Muslim policies. Union home minister Amit Shah attacked Congress over its stance on personal laws. …

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How the state views interpersonal relationships
9 months, 3 weeks ago

How the state views interpersonal relationships

Hindustan Times  

Any intervention of the state in the personal domain needs to maintain a delicate balance between a person’s right to privacy and the state’s interest in maintaining a just social order. Most recently, while refusing to recognise the right to marriage as a fundamental right in October 2023, the Supreme Court in Supriyo v. Union of India noted that the …

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Paternalistic Approach Of Family Law Towards Woman
10 months, 1 week ago

Paternalistic Approach Of Family Law Towards Woman

Live Law  

The subject of religion-based personal legislation in India is a complex and multifaceted one, encompassing various aspects such as secularism, modernism, national cohesion, communal identity, religious liberty, and the principle of equality. Within the framework of Muslim personal law in India, there exist several instances that underscore the paternalistic approach embedded in family laws. The court's decision in this case …

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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, …

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Will a Uniform Civil Code be divisive?
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Will a Uniform Civil Code be divisive?

India Today  

The Board of India Today Experts sat down to brainstorm on the Uniform Civil Code to try and determine if it is a law whose time has come in India or whether it will strike at the roots of the country’s diversity and go against the interests of the minorities. She sent extensive recommendations on UCC to the 22nd Law …

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Justice Obiter Dictum: Why the Marriage Equality Cause Lost the Battle in SC - News18
1 year, 2 months ago

Justice Obiter Dictum: Why the Marriage Equality Cause Lost the Battle in SC - News18

News 18  

The Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution Bench may have refused to recognise marriage as a fundamental right but no judge disagreed with the cause of gay rights in India. The Centre cautioned the Supreme Court that any piecemeal approach to marriage equality shall only further convolute the complicated space of personal laws and family laws in India. It is important to …

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Right To Civil Union, Adoption, Transgender Persons' Right To Marry: Where Supreme Court Bench Agreed & Disagreed In Marriage Equality Case
1 year, 2 months ago

Right To Civil Union, Adoption, Transgender Persons' Right To Marry: Where Supreme Court Bench Agreed & Disagreed In Marriage Equality Case

Live Law  

"There is a degree of agreement and a degree of disagreement on how far we have to go," remarked CJI DY Chandrachud as he commenced the pronouncement of the judgement denying the grant of legal recognition for queer marriages in India in open court yesterday. On a similar note, Justice Kaul, in his judgement, also stated that the entitlements devolving …

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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 …

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Empowerment or exploitation? How Uniform Civil Code will impact women’s rights in India
1 year, 4 months ago

Empowerment or exploitation? How Uniform Civil Code will impact women’s rights in India

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 9 MINS READ Is uniformity in law good for women? The Bebaak Collective, while suggesting reforms within Muslim personal law, has pointed out that all personal laws discriminate against women through the patriarchal institutions of the family and heteronormative marriage. It has sent a list of suggestions to the Law Commission titled …

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Uniform Civil Code: Another step towards making India a Hindu Rashtra?
1 year, 4 months ago

Uniform Civil Code: Another step towards making India a Hindu Rashtra?

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ In a recent public notice, the 22nd Law Commission of India solicited “views and ideas of the public at large and recognised religious organisations about the uniform civil code ”. Most commentators frequently reduce the discussion to portraying Muslim Personal Law as a symbol of the Indian Muslim’s conservatism, …

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Uniform Civil Code: Clash of moral universalism and cultural pluralism
1 year, 4 months ago

Uniform Civil Code: Clash of moral universalism and cultural pluralism

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 11 MINS READ India, a mix of multiple cultural traditions, has been a salad-bowl-like society where each culture combines with others while maintaining its contrasting yet distinct identity. This is because the Constitution itself contemplated both the existence and the continuance of personal laws in Article 44, which provides for an endeavour …

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Uniform Civil Code: History, implications, and minority perspectives
1 year, 5 months ago

Uniform Civil Code: History, implications, and minority perspectives

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 18, 2023 16:06 IST - 2 MINS READ On June 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh thrust discussions about the Uniform Civil Code into the spotlight, triggering nationwide debates on its potential implementation. The Uniform Civil Code aims to establish a uniform legal framework for all citizens, regardless of their religion. Article 44 …

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A common civil code spelling equality for every Indian
1 year, 5 months ago

A common civil code spelling equality for every Indian

The Hindu  

The 22nd Law Commission has called for responses to a proposal for a Uniform Civil Code in India. The antiquity of India’s customs and the diversity of its peoples are both brought up to make a case for tip-toeing around the existing personal laws despite their unequal rights for men and women. The demand that sections of the population, whether …

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Ajit Pawar, NCP MLAs hold second meeting with Sharad Pawar in 24 hours, urge him to keep party united
1 year, 5 months ago

Ajit Pawar, NCP MLAs hold second meeting with Sharad Pawar in 24 hours, urge him to keep party united

The Hindu  

A day after an impromptu meeting of the breakaway group of the Nationalist Congress Party led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar with the party chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday, the party’s legislators in the government paid a second visit to the NCP supremo at Mumbai’s Y.B. During the meeting, the MLAs sought Pawar Saheb’s guidance, asking him to show …

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Not Uniform Civil Code: India's Plural Legal System May Enlighten The World
1 year, 5 months ago

Not Uniform Civil Code: India's Plural Legal System May Enlighten The World

Live Law  

The abolishing of Personal Laws of India is challenging questions in post-colonial India even after 75 years, when India is officially celebrating the glorious history of its people, culture, diversity, the elixir of freedom and achievements. Pre- and post-colonial India has been debating the abolition of PLI and UCC intending to create ‘one unified family law’, which popularly has known …

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Congress holds closed-door meeting on Uniform Civil Code even as Law Panel extends the deadline
1 year, 5 months ago

Congress holds closed-door meeting on Uniform Civil Code even as Law Panel extends the deadline

The Hindu  

An eight-member group, set up to advice Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Uniform Civil Code, felt that uniformity on personal laws of different communities was not necessary even though there is scope for reforms of personal laws On July 15, members of this group held a closed door meeting at the All India Congress Committee headquarters in which the overwhelming …

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Communities oppose UCC over lack of transparency, threat to diversity
1 year, 5 months ago

Communities oppose UCC over lack of transparency, threat to diversity

Hindustan Times  

Even as the deadline for sending views on the Uniform Civil Code, which was July 14, was extended to July 28 on Friday, many communities in Mumbai have submitted their dissent. “If there is to be one code for everyone, we need to understand what the code is about.” “The Law Commission of India has asked for people’s opinions on …

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Modi Govt Rakes Up UCC Issue before Polls to Vitiate Atmosphere: Owaisi in Letter to Law Commission
1 year, 5 months ago

Modi Govt Rakes Up UCC Issue before Polls to Vitiate Atmosphere: Owaisi in Letter to Law Commission

News 18  

Submitting a detailed 33-page response to the Law Commission on the contentious Uniform Civil Code, Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi trained his guns at the Narendra Modi government, calling the proposed UCC a political exercise before every election in a bid to deflect people’s attention from issues like poverty, unemployment, and Chinese intrusion in border …

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An unacceptable verdict in the constitutional sense
1 year, 5 months ago

An unacceptable verdict in the constitutional sense

The Hindu  

A judgment by the Allahabad High Court recently, declining the prayer by an inter-faith couple in a live-in relationship for protection from police harassment has caught national attention. An inclination towards orthodoxy Though there were many deficits in the petition, the High Court could not have assumed that marriage is a condition precedent for constitutional protection and the exercise of …

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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 …

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UCC is a constitutional obligation. Fulfil it now.
1 year, 5 months ago

UCC is a constitutional obligation. Fulfil it now.

Hindustan Times  

Almost instantaneously after the 22nd Law Commission solicited views on the Uniform Civil Code last month, wonted groups unleashed their dishonest tropes. The Constituent Assembly could have advocated reforming personal laws in various religions, but instead affirmed faith in UCC, underscoring its idea of India. This brought about uniformity and gender justice in marriage, divorce, succession, inheritance and custody to …

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Amend personal laws to ensure gender justice, say activists
1 year, 5 months ago

Amend personal laws to ensure gender justice, say activists

The Hindu  

The overarching aim ofa Uniform Civil Code is to ensure gender justice, the Union government holds, but is such a common law actually needed for the women’s cause? Women’s rights activists across the religious and political spectrum are unanimous in their view that the first preference towards gender justice is the codification of existing personal laws of all religions and …

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India needs a Uniform Civil Code
1 year, 5 months ago

India needs a Uniform Civil Code

The Hindu  

India, being a diverse nation, is home to many religions, each with its distinct personal laws governing marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance and succession. In fact, one could assert that the legality of UCC is rooted in the Constitution of India, Constituent Assembly debates and also Supreme Court of India judgments. He said: “The point however, is this, whether we are …

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