SC flags the need for Uniform Civil Code to address complexities in personal laws

Parmod KumarNew Delhi, March 10 -- Emphasising the need for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), to address the legal complexities arising from the personal law and for ensuring the rights of women, the Supreme Court on Tuesday, however, left it to the wisdom of the legislature to enact such a law.

Observing that striking down provisions of personal law without a comprehensive legislative framework in place to step in could create a legal vacuum, a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and JR Mahadevan, said that in the absence of uniform code, declaring personal laws void, would create a vacuum.

The top court observations came in the course of the hearing of a petition challenging provisions of the Muslim Personal Law (Shari...