Putting the sensitive uniform civil code issue back on the political centre stage, the Supreme Court on Friday frowned on the failure of governments to heed Article 44 of the Constitution to promulgate a UCC for the entire country despite it being 63 years since the codification of Hindu law in 1956.

The lament about the failure to “secure for the citizens a UCC throughout the territories of India” as envisaged under Article 44 of the Constitution came as part of an important judgment delivered by a bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose which held that the Portuguese Civil Code of 1867 would govern succession and inheritance of properties of Goans even if situated outside the state.
 

Putting the sensitive uniform civil code issue back on the political centre stage, the Supreme Court on Friday frowned on the failure of governments to heed Article 44 of the Constitution to promulgate a UCC for the entire country despite it being 63 years since the codification of Hindu law in 1956.

The lament about the failure to “secure for the citizens a UCC throughout the territories of India” as envisaged under Article 44 of the Constitution came as part of an important judgment delivered by a bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose which held that the Portuguese Civil Code of 1867 would govern succession and inheritance of properties of Goans even if situated outside the state.