AIMPLB, which bats for Sharia, writes to Law Commission on UCC, seeks six months to submit recommendations
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After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a recent dialogue has began throughout the nation. Meanwhile, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) held a gathering on Tuesday, June 27. The AIMPLB wrote a letter to the Law Commission in search of six months’ time to offer its recommendations. On June 14, the Law Commission sought the views of all stakeholders and non secular organisations on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The letter tweeted by AIMPLB on twenty eighth June 2023 is definitely dated twenty third June 2023.
It is pertinent to notice that AIMPLB and its members have usually discarded the thought of UCC and mentioned that no one, not even the State, can alter Sharia regulation.
In this letter addressed to the secretary of the regulation fee and signed by All India Muslim Personal Law Board General Secretary Mohammad Fazlur Rahim Mujadidi the AIMPLB mentioned, “We have got to know about the above-referred notice issued by the Commission. We are sure that, we being the largest confederation of Muslim religious organizations in India shall submit a proper response to the said notice as we have also done in the past.”
Important letter from the Secretary General of @AIMPLB to the Secretary of the Law Commission of India.@MLJ_GoI#UCC pic.twitter.com/x61j5HwvZC
— All India Muslim Personal Law Board (@AIMPLB_Official) June 28, 2023
The letter additional mentioned, “However, considering the vast nature of the issue involved, the time duration given for the filing of response is too short. Secondly, the content set out in the above-referred notice is vague, too general and unclear. Thirdly, the terms for the suggestions to be invited are missing. Fourthly, we are not clear how this issue has become so important at this stage keeping in view that this commission’s predecessor had examined the very same issue and reached a conclusion that UCC is neither necessary nor desirable.”
The AIMPLB additional mentioned, “We are in the process of drafting and finalizing our response to your notice (though the ambit of the notice is open-ended and vague), but considering the mammoth task we will request you to extend this time by at least by 6 months so that appropriate response can be prepared by religious organizations individuals and public-spirited persons.”
On Tuesday, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board determined to proceed its opposition to the Uniform Civil Code, saying it is going to current its arguments extra strongly earlier than the Law Commission on this regard.
Senior board member Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali instructed information company PTI that numerous workplace bearers and members of the board, together with chairman Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, attended the board assembly. He mentioned the assembly, which lasted until late within the evening, deliberated on the draft of objections to be raised by the board’s legal professionals earlier than the Law Commission on the UCC concern.
Maulana Farangi Mahali mentioned that within the assembly it was determined to proceed the opposition to UCC and it was determined that the board will put its arguments extra strongly earlier than the Law Commission on this matter.
