Epigraph:
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody’s personal concern!
― Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Times of India
In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has given Muslims the right to adopt a child despite their personal law prohibiting it.
The apex court said on Wednesday that the laws of land has to get primacy over personal law till the country achieves Uniform Civil Code as provided in Article 44 of the Constitution.
The SC bench said the right to adoption is conferred by a law and operation of this cannot be stultified by a personal law dictate.
The SC judgment comes on an 8 years old petition by Shabnam Hashmi who had approached the apex court after being refused permission to adopt.
Categories: Asia, Children, India, Law and Religion, Separation of Church and State
This is called justice and insight. May be some day the so called Muslim countries, will begin to see the light of separation of Mosque-Church and State also.
Mahatma Gandhi once said: