Uniform laws on divorce | Supreme Court adjourns hearing on PILs for four weeks
The Hindu
“We will see how far the court can go,” Supreme Court Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud observed orally
The Supreme Court on February 20 said it will examine how far it can judicially intervene in making divorce proceedings gender and religion neutral while adding a rider that it prima facie felt the government and legislature have to take the call ultimately.
“We will see how far the court can go,” Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud observed orally.
The Bench, however, added that it was for the “government to decide and not for the court to go into” issues like “removing anomalies in the grounds of divorce and make them uniform for all citizens without prejudice on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth”.
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The court was hearing a petition, among a batch, filed by petitioner- advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, represented by senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, to frame guidelines for “uniform grounds of divorce for all citizens across the different faiths”.
The government, represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, said it had “no objections in principle to make the law gender neutral”.
However, it was for the court to consider how far it could “judicially intervene” in the issue.
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