Uniform Civil Code gets Delhi High Court backing, Centre asked to take necessary steps

The Delhi excessive courtroom decide additionally stated {that a} Uniform Civil Code has been reiterated by the Supreme Courtroom occasionally.

The contentious problem of the Uniform Civil Code took centrestage at the moment with the Delhi High Court observing that there was want for the regulation in India. Passing a judgement on a plea involving the applicability of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 in regards to the Meena group on July 7, Justice Prathiba M Singh stated that there’s a want for a Uniform Civil Code in India and requested the Centre to take the mandatory steps on this regard.

The judgement noticed that trendy Indian society is step by step turning into homogeneous and is dissipating the standard boundaries of faith, group, and caste. The courtroom noticed {that a} uniform civil code is required given the altering paradigms. She famous that when folks belonging to totally different castes and religions marry one another, they wrestle with conflicts arising out of non-public legal guidelines and the courtroom can be repeatedly confronted with these conflicts.

The courtroom famous {that a} Uniform Civil Code as envisioned below Article 44 of the Structure of India would allow the appliance of uniform legal guidelines in issues associated to marriage, divorce, and succession, thus decreasing the conflicts that come up because of private legal guidelines.

The Delhi excessive courtroom decide additionally stated {that a} Uniform Civil Code has been reiterated by the Supreme Courtroom occasionally. The apex courtroom had sought the Centre’s reply over religion-neutral inheritance and succession legal guidelines in March final yr. Notably, a Uniform Civil Code has been on the agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and among the many three key guarantees as talked about by the saffron social gathering in its manifesto. Of the three together with Ram Temple in Ayodhya, revocation of Article 370, solely UCC stays to be fulfilled. Each the BJP and the RSS want to construct a consensus round it earlier than actively delving into this contentious problem. Final yr, a Supreme Courtroom advocate and a member of the BJP Ashwini Upadhyay had filed 5 petitions associated to the UCC within the apex courtroom.

The All India Muslim Private Legislation Board has been against the transfer. It had stated that India has a multicultural and multi-religious society they usually has the constitutional proper to take care of their identification.

In 2019, BJP MP Kirori Lal Meena had tried to introduce a non-public member’s invoice over the UCC within the Rajya Sabha however needed to again down because of the opposition benches claiming that the transfer may flare up communal tensions.