New Delhi: Elevating the marriageable age for girls and solutions on inheritance legal guidelines are among the many suggestions made by the Uttarakhand authorities’s knowledgeable committee on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), ThePrint has learnt.
Sources stated the committee is prone to push for a ban on polygamy and polyandry, and has additionally touched upon live-in relationships within the draft. The draft is prone to be submitted to the federal government mid-July.
Committee chairperson Justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai stated at a press convention right here Friday that the draft of the proposed UCC for the state was prepared. This comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a powerful pitch for uniform legal guidelines for folks throughout communities earlier this week.
Uttarakhand’s knowledgeable committee was constituted by the state authorities final yr to look at the assorted current legal guidelines regulating private civil issues within the state.
The five-member committee — together with retired Excessive Courtroom choose Permod Kohli, social activist Manu Gaur, former chief secretary Shatrughan Singh and Doon College vice-chancellor Surekha Dangwal — interacted with representatives of political events, state statutory commissions and leaders of assorted spiritual denominations to formulate the draft.
The panel acquired numerous solutions on registration of live-in relations in addition to uniformity in marriageable age for women and men. “Dwell-in relations are the truth of at the moment and now we have touched upon the problem within the report,” a committee member stated to ThePrint, requesting anonymity.
“So far as rising the marriageable age is anxious, now we have not centered on any specific group or faith. The concept is to herald uniformity throughout faiths and guarantee larger ladies empowerment,” stated a supply.
Committee chair Desai stated, “Members of the Regulation Fee of India interacted with members of the knowledgeable committee on 2 June 2023 the place we supplied them particulars as to what all now we have finished and the interactions we had.” She added that the panel has drafted the code bearing in mind opinions of individuals throughout the state and even checked out legal guidelines in choose international locations.
Desai stated that gender equality and empowerment had been the prime areas for the committee and solutions had been made protecting them in thoughts.
“So far as rising the marriageable age is anxious, we acquired solutions from ladies throughout the spectrum and a few even urged elevating it to 25. We now have supplied scientific reasoning for rising the age. We respect tradition and custom however those that have been misusing them should change so far as our solutions are involved,” stated the committee member quoted earlier.
(Edited by Smriti Sinha)
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