Law Commission is proceeding towards effecting Uniform Civil Code by amending Hindu Marriage Act along with Islamic law of marriage and divorce. They are citing certain Muslim countries where second marriage is banned. I request the chairman and the members of Law Commission to study in depth the remote effects of Islamic laws before suggesting ban on bigamy.
If you ask a sex worker whether she would like to introduce her daughter to the profession she has been in, she will reject the idea outright. In the same way a girl would reject the idea of becoming a keep. The Commission should think over how sex workers and keeps came into existence? These ladies could not get married due to want of money, or were divorced or become aged or they became widow in the early age. The Commission should think of their plight. Will it not be better to become the second or third wife of a responsible man than to be a sex worker or keep?
In the Hindu Marriage Act, second marriage is prohibited and as such the man, whose wife has left or died, seeks a partner to fulfil his sexual desire without entering into the second marriage. So it is the Hindu Marriage Act that needs to be amended and the Muslim Personal Law.
Kausar Fatima
Gulbarga