“The committee headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai submitted the draft of the Uniform Civil Code to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami”

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Haridwar: The committee headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai submitted the draft of the Uniform Civil Code to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami at 11 am today. The government had constituted a five-member committee for UCC on 27 May 2022. Now the government will approve it in the cabinet meeting to be held tomorrow.
*After the implementation of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), polygamy will be banned and polygamy will be completely banned.
*The legal age of marriage for girls can be fixed at 21 years.
*It will be mandatory for people living in live-in relationships to provide their information and people living in such relationships will have to provide information to their parents.
*Police registration will be necessary for those in live-in relationships.
*Compulsory registration may be required after marriage.
Every marriage will be registered in the respective village or town and without registration the marriage will be considered invalid.
If marriage is not registered, you may be deprived of any government facility.
*If marriage is not registered, you may be deprived of any government facility.
*Muslim women will also have the right to adopt and the process of adoption will be simple.
*Girls will also get equal inheritance rights as boys.
*Practices like Iddat may be banned within the Muslim community.
*Both husband and wife will have equal access to divorce procedures.
*In case of death of the working son, the responsibility of maintaining the elderly parents will be on the wife and she will get compensation.
*In the event of the death of the husband, if the wife remarries, the compensation received will be shared with her parents.
*If the wife dies and her parents do not get any support, the responsibility of taking care of them will be on the husband.
*The process of guardianship for orphan children will be simplified.
*In cases of dispute between husband and wife, the custody of children can be given to their grandparents.
*Provisions may be introduced for population control, including setting limits on the number of children.
*The entire draft may focus on women-centric provisions. Tribal people are likely to get exemption from UCC.

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Poonam Bhardwaj