V ol. – IV JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY UNIFORM CIVIL CODE Vol. – IV Special Issue 2017 J ISSN No : 2350 - 1200 OURN ARTICLES Uniform Civil Code: An Attempt to Examining the Fundamental Dichotomies of AL OF Explore its Affordability Personal Laws and Human Rights with Reference to Dr. Vijender Kumar & Naresh Kumar Vats a Growing Consensus for a Uniform Civil Code Bharath Gururagavendran Need and Challenges to Uniform Civil Code in India: A Special Reference to Muslim Ethos Uniform Civil Code and the Conflict of Personal Laws Kiran Suryanarayana Dr. G.S. Rajpurohit & Dr. Nitesh Saraswat L Uniform Civil Code: A Quest towards One Code, One Nation: Reality Or a Speculation A Ensuring Uniform Property Rights for Women Kriti Rathi & Aman Tolwani Cruelty: Interpretation in Indian Personal Laws W AND Dr. P. Sree Sudha Samhitha Sharath Reddy Multi-Culturalism or Malestreamism: A Feminist Jurisprudential Critique Uniform Civil Code: Unified Laws and Divergent Ways Pranusha Kulkarni Siddharth Anand Panda & Samyak Mohanty Uniform Civil Code: The Future of Muslim Personal Law in India: P A Way to National Integration Codification or a Uniform Civil Code? Zaid Deva & Swagat Baruah Vini Kewaliy UBLIC A Critical Study of Civil Code in Uniform Civil Code: An Ornamental Legislation UK, USA and India with Debajyoti Saha & Sunayna Bhat Special Reference to Rights of Women Shivani Dutta Uniform Civil Code and its Constitutional Apparatus Nithya C. & Sera Rose George Constitutional Quest to Uniform Civil Code - P Mirage or Compulsion CASE COMMENTS OLICY - UCC Lt. Col. Plavelil George Eapen (Retd) Maintenance under Muslim Personal Law in Light of Uniform Civil Code, Constitution of India and Danial Latifi v. Union Of India – Constitutionalism The Need for A Uniform Civil Code Preethika Pilinja Varnika Chawla Public Domain of Personal Laws: An Inquiry from the Uniform Civil Code and Adoption Laws: Perspectives of Conflict of Interests and Identities A Case Comment on Shabnam Hashmi v. Union of India Eklavya Anand & Shailesh Kumar Sregurupriya Ayappan National Law School of India University, P.O. Box 7201, Nagarbhavi, 2017 NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY Bengaluru-560272 BENGALURU JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY UNIFORM CIVIL CODE Volume - IV Special Issue 2017 IV JLPP (2017) National Law School of India University Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru-560 072 Karnataka, India For Subscription Contact: National Law School of India University, P O Box 7201, Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru -560 272, Karnataka, India Ph: 080-23160524/29 Email: [email protected] Price: India Rs. 500/- Abroad $ 20 / £ 10 ISSN (O) 2350- 1200 Copyright: © CEERA, NLSIU, 2017. Mode of Citation: IV JLPP [2017] Disclaimer: The views expressed by the author/s in the journal are their personal and does not necessarily reflect the views of the National Law School of India University. Printed at Sri Vidya Printers, Bengaluru -20 JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY UNIFORM CIVIL CODE Volume - IV Special Issue 2017 Patron-in-Chief Prof. [Dr.] R Venkata Rao Vice Chancellor, NLSIU Chief Editor Dr. Sairam Bhat Associate Professor of Law Editor Praveen Tripathi Assistant Professor of Law Editorial Assistance 1. Raagya Zadu 3. Vishwanath Rajput Research Scholor, NLSIU Student BA. LLB. NLSIU 2. Ranganath. A 4. Vikash Meena Research Scholor, NLSIU Student, BA, LLB, NLSIU Editorial Advisory Board 1. Prof. [Dr.] N.R. Madhava Menon Honorary Professor, IBA-CLE Chair, NLSIU 2. Prof. [Dr.] A. Lakshminath Vice Chancellor, Chanakya National Law University, Patna 3. Prof. [Dr.] T.V. Subba Rao Visiting Professor, NLSIU 4. Prof. [Dr.] Shashikala Gurpur (Prof.) Director, Symbiosis Law School, Pune 5. Dr. Dilan Thampapillai Senior Lecturer, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia iv CONTENTS Foreword ........................................................................................................... i Editorial ............................................................................................................ iii ARTICLES 1. Uniform Civil Code: An Attempt to Explore its Affordability ................................................................. 01 Dr. Vijender Kumar & Naresh Kumar Vats 2. Need and Challenges to Uniform Civil Code in India: A Special Reference to Muslim Ethos......................................... 20 Dr. G.S. Rajpurohit & Dr. Nitesh Saraswat 3. Uniform Civil Code: A Quest towards Ensuring Uniform Property Rights for Women ........................................................... 45 Dr. P. Sree Sudha 4. Multi-Culturalism or Malestreamism: A Feminist Jurisprudential Critique ............................................ 66 Pranusha Kulkarni 5. Uniform Civil Code: A Way to National Integration .................. 89 Vini Kewaliya 6. A Critical Study of Civil Code in UK, USA and India with Special Reference to Rights of Women ....................................... 95 Shivani Dutta 7. Constitutional Quest to Uniform Civil Code - Mirage or Compulsion ................................................................. 108 Lt. Col. Plavelil George Eapen (Retd) 8. Uniform Civil Code, Constitution of India and Constitutionalism ........................................................................... 113 Preethika Pilinja 9. Public Domain of Personal Laws: An Inquiry from the Perspectives of Conflict of Interests and Identities ............... 124 Eklavya Anand & Shailesh Kumar 10. Examining the Fundamental Dichotomies of Personal Laws and Human Rights with Reference to a Growing Consensus for a Uniform Civil Code ................................................................. 144 Bharath Gururagavendran 11. Uniform Civil Code and the Conflict of Personal Laws ........ 163 Kiran Suryanarayana 12. One Code, One Nation: Reality Or a Speculation................ 185 Kriti Rathi & Aman Tolwani 13. Cruelty : Interpretation in Indian Personal Laws ................. 198 Samhitha Sharath Reddy 14. Uniform Civil Code: Unified Laws and Divergent Ways ...... 215 Siddharth Anand Panda & Samyak Mohanty 15. The Future of Muslim Personal Law in India: Codification or a Uniform Civil Code? ............................................................ 231 Zaid Deva & Swagat Baruah 16. Uniform Civil Code: An Ornamental Legislation .................. 253 Debajyoti Saha & Sunayna Bhat 17. Uniform Civil Code and its Constitutional Apparatus ........... 267 Nithya C. & Sera Rose George CASE COMMENTS 18. Maintenance under Muslim Personal Law in Light of Danial Latifi v. Union of India – The Need for a Uniform Civil Code....................................... 281 Varnika Chawla 19. Uniform Civil Code and Adoption Laws: A Case Comment on Shabnam Hashmi v. Union of India ..................................... 294 Sregurupriya Ayappan FOREWORD Three critical things essential to democratic renewal and progressive change in any country are- Good Public Policy, Grassroot organizing and Electoral Politics. National Law School of India University in keeping with its avowed objective which is to focus on the emerging trends with special reference to Public Policy, is releasing the fourth issue of The Journal of Law and Public Policy. The current number focuses on the legal and policy issues facing the contentious debate on Uniform Civil Code. As is observed in certain quarters, “has time come when a blueprint of a Common Civil Code (not uniform but common), that culls out the best laws from all religions based on the gender justice is placed for a National Debate?” I am sure this particular issue of the Journal will enable the stake holders to put the right questions. While congratulating Dr. Sairam Bhat, Chief Editor and his team for their commendable efforts, I sincerely hope that the readers of the Journal will find all the well-researched articles eminently useful. Prof. (Dr.) R. Venkata Rao Vice-Chancellor i ii EDITORIAL We are indeed delighted to publish the fourth edition of the Journal of Law and Public Policy. Our previous issues have been broad based covering different aspects of public policy; the current issue was planned with focused theme on the legal and policy issues facing the debate on Uniform Civil Code in India[UCC]. The papers selected and published in this Journal had the benefit of the two day national seminar on UCC organised at NLSIU on 17th and 18th March 2017. UCC, under Article 44 in the Constitution of India, touches on a range of issues, like whether must we have a Uniform Civil Code or Common Civil Code; what essentially is meant by the term ‘uniform’ that too in a country like India, wherein diversity of language, culture and religion exists; how the proposed code will address the issues of gender justice, human rights and protection of dignity of women; whether ‘triple talaq’ and polygamy are the main concerns to be addressed in UCC; about succession, inheritance, adoption, marriage and maintenance; and likewise. Time and again, either through political commentary, judicial order or as recently, through the Law Commission questionnaire, the topic of UCC has always been brought to public discourse. In light of the above, we have attempted to bring out a special issue of JLPP on this area. The articles in the journal make an attempt to discuss some, if not all of the issues and challenges on UCC and the idea is to discuss, debate, deliberate, argue and agree on how and what process are necessary in this regard. Prof. [Dr.] Vijendra Kumar and Dr. Naresh from MNLU, Nagpur, evaluate the affordability of UCC.‘Unity in diversity’ is a well-known term specifically in geographical aspect