The Uttarakhand government, in a bold and unprecedented move, has decided to bring in a law to govern live-in relationships.
A Bill regarding the same was recently introduced in the State Assembly by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
Sharing the news on X (formerly called Twitter), Mr Dhami said that in order to give equal rights to the citizens of Devbhoomi Uttarakhand, a Uniform Civil Code bill would be introduced in the Assembly. He called it a ‘moment of pride’ for all the people of the state as Uttarakhand would now be known as the first state in the country to move towards implementing UCC.
The draft UCC Bill seeks to penalise the persons who do not register their live-in relationships with a prison term. The proposed legislation also deals with other aspects such as marriage, divorce and inheritance in Uttarakhand.
The draft bill was prepared by a five-member panel headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. The committee handed over the UCC final report to Dhami on February 2.
The UCC has laid out regulations on what is permissible and what is prohibited in relationships across faiths, subject to personal customary laws.
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