The Supreme Court’s observations last week that there was a “lack of secular commitment” for reforms in the personal laws of minority communities have come in for disapproval by eminent jurist and Law Commission member Tahir Mahmood, who has termed the remarks “uncalled for and irrelevant” to the public interest case on a uniform marriageable age before the Court. Dr. Mahmood, who was in Udaipur to attend the 14th All-World Dawoodi Bohra Conference, said over the week-end that the Supreme Court’s observations identifying all communities other than Hindu as “unwilling to tolerate statutory interventions” for revamping of personal laws had put the minorities in a poor light and given an impression of the Hindu Code Bills being a superior piece of legislation
SC REMARKS ON PERSONAL LAWS DRAW FLAK
The Supreme Court’s observations last week that there was a “lack of secular commitment” for reforms in the personal laws of minority communities have come in for disapproval by eminent jurist and Law Commission
