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Sections Of Hindu Succession Act Gender Biased? SC asks Centre To File Reply

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New Delhi: Supreme Court heard a petition on Tuesday alleging sections of the Hindu Succession Act are unconstitutional and violate gender equalityโ€. The petition was heard by SC at a time debate around the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is largely focused on gender injustice perceived to be prevalent in the personal laws of minority communities.

The Centre has been given four weeks to respond.

The petition states, โ€œThe court should intervene on behalf of Hindu women because while society is moving towards gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act discriminates based on gender.โ€

The petition was filed by Kamal Anant Khopkar. Khopkarโ€™s petition was heard by a three-judge bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant, and Bela Trivedi.

The plea points to โ€œdeeply rooted patriarchal ideologyโ€ in the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act and spotlights how the husbandโ€™s family comes first in the line of inheritance even before the dead womanโ€™s own parents.

As per the petition, the provisions in the Hindu Succession Act, manage to retain property largely within the male lineage.

โ€œIt is irrelevant weather the personal law was established on the basis of practice or religion or if it is codified or notโ€ฆ If it violates gender equality, it can be challenged,โ€ the petitioner said.

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โ€œCompanies Recovering Increasing Cost From Public But Not Reducing Profitโ€: Akhilesh Yadavโ€™s Jibe At BJP

Ashmita Chhabria

New Delhi: In an attack over Centre, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said took a swipe on BJP and said that BJP is no more a party, it has become a company now. A company which is recovering the โ€œincreasing costsโ€ from the people without reducing their own profit.

Taking to Twitter on the rising prices in India, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said, โ€œIn todayโ€™s era of inflation, companies are recovering the increasing cost from the public but they are not reducing their profits.โ€

Attaching a news report he said, โ€œThe role of a government in a democracy is not to rule, but to make policies, which are in the public interest, so that no one can exploit and oppress the people. BJP has become a company.โ€

Recently Akhilesh Yadav, who has been appointed as the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly, has repeatedly attacked on BJP government over last few days, for rising fuel prices.

As per the report shared by Akhilesh Yadav, Indian manufacturers are running out of capacity to absorb rising input costs, as a result of which companies are increasingly passing the cost along to consumers through a marked-up retail price.

In an economy already grappling with Asiaโ€™s third-fastest inflation and an uneven recovery, prices have surged across sectors, led by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

Such remarks of Yadav come on the day when the petrol diesel price hike by 80 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in fuel prices in the last two weeks to โ‚น9.20 per litre.

On Monday, Rajya Sabha witnessed repeated disruptions over rising prices of petroleum products as Opposition demand to discuss the issue was rejected again. Congress leader KC Venugopal demanded that the Centre should indulge in dialogue, deliberation and solution with regard to rising fuel prices across the country, alleging that the government adjourns the House whenever the opposition parties raise issues related to common people.

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