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New Delhi: The Uttarakhand government Tuesday tabled the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the state Assembly which proposes banning the practice of polygamy and child marriage, and criminalisation of nikah halala, among other things.The Bill further proposes a common law on marriage, divorce, land, property and inheritance for all citizens irrespective of their religion in the state, but excludes the Scheduled Tribes...
The marriageable age for men and women remains 21 and 18, respectively...
A five-member committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, had been constituted by the Dhami government in May 2022 to prepare a draft Uniform Civil Code for implementation in the hill state.The panel also included retired high court judge Permod Kohli, social activist Manu Gaur, former chief secretary Shatrughan Singh and Doon University vice-chancellor Surekha Dangwal.The panel collected feedback, written and online, and held several public outreach programmes while engaging with over 60,000 people after which it drafted a 749-page report containing several recommendations...
Section 4 of the proposed UCC Bill sets up conditions for solemnising/contracting a marriage, stating that a marriage may be solemnised/contracted between a man and a woman, if the following conditions are fulfilled, namely (i) neither party has a spouse living at the time of the marriage...
The Bill also points out that no marriage solemnised/contracted before or after the commencement of this Code shall be dissolved in any manner except in accordance with the provisions of this Part, notwithstanding any usage, custom, tradition, personal law of any party to the marriage or any enactment to the contrary...
