Uniform Civil Code Essay

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UNIFORM CIVIL CODE AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN INDIA
Introduction:
Indian Constitution expressly stands for gender equality. Article 44 of Constitution of India provides for UCC for all citizens and says that the State shall endeavor to secure for all citizens a Uniform Civil Code. But this idea is still a dead letter. Women who make up half of India are still fighting for gender just code to enjoy equality and justice irrespective of their personal laws. That is why UCC is needed not only to provide uniformity of laws between all communities but also uniformity to provide equality between men and women1.
Concept of UCC:
The voice for implementation of UCC has been raised recently …show more content…

UNIFORM which means same in similar condition, civil means citizens and CODE means Codified laws. This supersedes the right of Citizens to be governed by their own personal laws. The UCC is conceived as part of secularization of personal laws without interfering in religious beliefs2.
Need of UCC:
Uniform Civil Code is needed to promote Secularism which is the basic feature of constitution of India as was held by the Supreme Court in S. R. Bomai V. Union of India3. Implementation of UCC is needed to promote national integration and to reform Personal laws. It will also provide equal treatment to all specially to women. In 21st century where a Hindu wife or a Christian wife can charge her husband for bigamy if he remarry during her lifetime and also during the subsistence of their marriage then why a Muslim wife cannot?
Under Muslim law polygamy is permitted where a Muslim man have four wives but if we go through the Quran it says that a Muslim man can marry one, two, three or four but he has to give equal treatment to all of them and it is impossible for him to treat them all equally. So in other sense Quran also suggested for monogamy but polygamy is the practice among …show more content…

which are applicable to all citizens irrespective of their culture or religion, but when it comes to the personal matters like marriage, divorce, inheritance, maintenance, adoption etc.; the communities are governed by Personal Laws. And in Personal Laws we can notice the prevalence of discrimination against women in different major communities in India.
Community specific personal Laws in Contravention of Constitutional provisions and other Uniform Codes:
One of the most important reason because of which the Civil Rights are demanding the application of Uniform Civil Code to ascertain the equal right to women, all major religious communities in India follow practices which are against the right of women and don’t allow their socio-economic progress. For example, according to section 6 Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 when the question arises as to the Guardianship of mother she cannot be natural guardian during lifetime of husband which is violation of article 14 and 15 of India Constitution.
In relation to Muslims usages are very rigid; there was practice of triple talaq where the Muslim husband had irresistible power to take divorce, even without assigning the reason which is

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