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The Uniform Civil Code is a proposal in India to formulate and implement personal laws of citizens which apply on all citizens equally regardless of their religion. . Currently, personal laws of various communities are governed by their religious scri
In 2022, the Government of Uttarakhand established a five-member expert committee, chaired by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, to study and draft a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) law for the state. [6] The committee sought public suggestions and received a total of 60,810 responses regarding the drafting and implementation of the ...
Uttarakhand, a small northern Indian state governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party, is set to pass a bill to replace religion-specific civil laws with a Uniform Civil ...
The civil code was retained in Goa after its merger with the Indian Union in 1961, although in Portugal, the original Code was replaced by the new Portuguese Civil Code of 1966. In 1981, the Government of India appointed a Personal Law Committee to determine if the non-uniform laws of the Union could be extended to Goa.
Uniform civil code of India, referring to proposed Civil code in the legal system of India, which would apply equally to all irrespective of their religion; Uniform Commercial Code, a 1952 uniform act to harmonize state contract law for the sale of goods in the respective states of the United States
Some argued that India's various personal laws were too divisive and that a uniform civil code should be instituted in their place. And once the notion of a uniform civil code was put forward, it soon became accepted as an important part of the effort to construct an Indian national identity, over the separate identities of caste, religion and ...
The Law Commission of India stated on 31 August 2018 that a uniform civil code is "neither necessary nor desirable at this stage" in a 185-page consultation paper. [45] In February 2020, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that "presently there is no proposal to legalise same-sex marriage", adding that the Union Government was not ...
The verdict discusses issue of bigamy, the conflict between the personal laws existing on matters of marriage and invokes article 494 of Indian Penal Code. It is considered a landmark decision that highlighted the need for a uniform civil code. [2]