New Delhi: In a significant observation on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the Delhi High Court has stressed the urgent need for legislative clarity to prevent personal or customary laws from overriding national legislation.

“Is it not the time to move towards a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), ensuring a single framework where personal or customary law does not override national legislation? [T]he Legislature must decide whether to continue criminalising entire communities or to promote peace and harmony through legal certainty,” observed a single-judge Bench of Justice Arun Monga, while granting bail to a 24-year-old man accused of marrying a minor under Muslim personal law.

The prosecutrix herself supported her husband and opposed his prosecution, but official documents indicated she was only

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