Uttarakhand govt registers first live-in relationship under UCC, five applications under scrutiny
PTC News Desk: A week after Uniform Civil Code came into effect, the Uttarakhand government has registered first case of live-in relationship while five other applications are under scrutiny. The government had received six applications so far out of which, one has been accepted while other applications are being examined.
The registration certificates will be provided after the verification process, Home Secretary Shailesh Bagoli while confirming the development said. “Five applications have been submitted for the registration for the live-in relationship under UCC.”
Bagauli emphasised that the application data remains encrypted and protected. “We don’t even know who has applied and from where. It is totally against Right to Privacy [to disclose their information],” he said.
Notably the Uttarakhand UCC makes it mandatory for the couples to register live-in relationships which is applicable to all the residents living in the state and across any part of India.
However the members of civil sociaty have flagged concerns regarding privacy infringement and raising apprehensions over security of women due to certain mandates under UCC which came into effect in the name of protection of women.
However, chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami defended the live-in registration provisions citing safety concerns. “We want the security of live-in couples. There was a case in which one Shraddha Walker was murdered by her live-in partner in Delhi in 2022. We don’t want Shraddha Walker-like cases here,” he had said during the law’s launch."
- PTC NEWS