A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking removal of anomalies in the ground of succession & inheritance & make them gender-neutral, religion-neutral, & uniform for all citizens.
The Public Interest Litigation said that the Centre has failed to provide even gender-neutral & religion-neutral uniform grounds of succession & inheritance for all citizens in the spirit of the Articles 14, 15, 21, 44, & international conventions.
The petition filed by Lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay said, "Uniformity in succession & inheritance is not only necessary to secure gender justice, gender equality & dignity of women but also essential to promote fraternity, unity & national integration, but, Centre has not taken any steps in this regard till date. Therefore, a blatant form of discrimination that is the prejudice in the succession & inheritance based on gender & religion is continuing."
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The petition sought to declare that the discriminatory grounds of succession & inheritance are a violation of Articles 14, 15, 21 of the Constitution & frame gender-neutral, religion-neutral, uniform guidelines of succession & inheritance for all Indian citizens.
It asked that the Law Commission of India examine the laws relating to succession & inheritance of the developed countries & International Conventions in this regard & prepare a report on 'uniform grounds of succession & inheritance' for all citizens in the spirit of Articles 14, 15, 21, 44 of the Constitution within 3 months.
The plea further said that "The injury caused to the citizens is extremely large because gender-biased & religion biased personal laws relating to succession & inheritance are not only against the constitutional ethos of gender justice & gender equality, guaranteed under Articles 14-15 but also against the dignity of women, which is an important element of right life to life & liberty, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution".
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