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Secular Laws are available to all: A way forward for Uniform Civil Code?

by rti_adminon August 27, 2024August 27, 2024Leave a Comment1

Samaan Shekhar On July 10, 2024, the Supreme Court of India, in Mohd Abdul Samad vs State of Telangana declared that Muslim women can seek maintenance after divorce under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). This momentous decision has far-reaching implications, not limited to the domain of maintenance after divorce. However, before …

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Uniform Civil Code or the Struggle for Our Commons

by rti_adminon October 6, 2016March 20, 20230

Georgy Kuruvila Roy Doesn’t the form in which the current debate on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is taking place, make the implementation of the UCC an urgent concern? In other words, the UCC is required precisely to do away with the vilification of Muslims (or any community for that matter) that the present debate …