SynopsisUttarakhand has become the first state in India to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) after Goa, which brings a common set of laws to all the citizens of India regardless of their religion.

A state-level UCC raises a constitutional question on Article 44, which suggests the code ought to have a national character.

Following the lead of Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) government in Gujarat has also initiated the process to ...

GANDHINAGAR: The BJP government in Gujarat announced the formation of a committee, headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, ...

With Uniform Civil Code, BJP can now claim to have delivered on another component of its ‘core’ agenda after the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya ...

He also cited example of Goa, the only state with UCC law and said that it is a 'partisan and prejudiced' law, where Hindu men have certain advantages over their Muslim and Christian peers.

With Gujarat government forming a committee to study the modalities for drafting and implementing a law on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), many Parliamentarians from Uttar Pradesh have welcomed the ...

Noting that the UCC in Goa allows a Hindu man to marry a second time if the first wife does not bear a son, the Hyderabad MP wanted to know whether this was Gogoi’s vision of the UCC.

Mr Modi, too, had said that UCC is already in place in the state of Goa and everyone is living happily there. He further asserted that even the Indian Constitution has mentioned the implementation ...

The Gujarat government has constituted a special committee under the chairmanship of a former judge to analyse and assess the impact of UCC, official sources said. The committee will prepare a ...

The move comes less than three months after Uttarakhand became the first state in India to implement a UCC, establishing a comprehensive framework for marriage registration, divorce, live-in ...