Supreme Court agrees to hear the petitions seeking implementation of Uniform Civil Code

Supreme Court agrees to hear the petitions seeking implementation of Uniform Civil Code on 3rd January, 2017
BJP spokesperson Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay who is an intervener in the case, mentioned the urgency before a three Judge bench of Chief Justice Thakur and Justice DY Chandrachud. Upadhyay in his impleadment petition in the main case Albert Antony Vs Union of India submitted that the object of the Article 44 is to introduce a uniform personal law for all the purposes of national consolidation. In Albert Antony Case, the petitioner also challenged the legal provision that forces Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce whereas other religions like the Hindu Marriage Act and the Parsi Marriage and the Special Marriage Act, and Divorce Act prescribed only one year for it.