Naimisa Madduri, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad
ABSTRACT
The urge for a uniform civil code has increased immensely in the recent times where the rule makers as well as the implementers find it difficult to appease all divisions of the society. The personal laws related to religion or state have increased the urgency for the implementation of a uniform code of law. Also, the recent legal developments done for the betterment of a class of society, to protect minorities against suppression or to prevent gender bias have paved a way for the filing of a plea for introducing the uniform civil code law in the constitution. A uniform law helps the legislative reform existing personal laws related to marriage ceremonies and rites, divorce laws, adoption and succession laws. It also secures the interests ambitions of the youth from the external and internal influences which are shaped by the universal and global principles of humanity and modernity. It is a very common notion that the enactment of UCC would pose a threat to the secular nature of the country and thereby, amending the basic structure of the constitution. It is for the same reason that the law makers introduced the word ‘endeavour’ in the article so that no obligation falls on the legislature to enact anything against the public will.
