OPINION | Uniform Civil Code: Constitutional vision, Supreme Court observations, and the current debate

On several occasions, the Court has drawn attention to the constitutional vision embodied in Article 44 and the importance of ...
India Today on MSN

SC sees Uniform Civil Code as solution to Sharia law's bias against Muslim women

The Supreme Court has said that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is the most effective way to ensure equal inheritance and civil rights for Muslim women. A bench led by Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, ...

Uniform Civil Code may solve gender bias in personal laws: Supreme Court

“The answer is a Uniform Civil Code,” observed the bench while hearing submissions from advocate Prashant Bhushan, who ...
Reuters

Explainer: What is India's civil code and why does it anger Muslims?

NEW DELHI, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Uttarakhand, a small northern Indian state governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party, passed a bill to replace religion-specific civil laws with a ...

Time for Uniform Civil Code, says SC as petition challenges ‘discriminatory’ Shariat law provisions

The bench wondered if it struck down the provision on inheritance under the 1937 Act, would it not lead to a legal vacuum with regard to Muslim inheritance.