SC seeks Centre reply on transfer of PILs seeking uniform marriage age
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New Delhi, Feb 2 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking transfer of two petitions from the Delhi High Court and Rajasthan High Court pertaining to the matter of uniform minimum age of marriage for men and women.
Senior advocate Geeta Luthra, representing the petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde that identical pleas are pending in the two high courts. Luthra argued that the top court should decide this matter, and the transfer of petitions will also avoid multiplicity of litigations and conflicting views. Upadhyay had moved the top court seeking transfer of the pleas in October last year.
›SC seeks Centre s reply on plea for transfer of PILs on uniform marriage age from Delhi, Rajasthan High Courts
SC seeks Centre s reply on plea for transfer of PILs on uniform marriage age from Delhi, Rajasthan High Courts
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The Delhi High Court had in August, 2019 issued notice to the Centre and the Law Commission of India on BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay s plea seeking uniform marriage age for men and women.
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The petitioner argued that the plea had been filed to ‘secure gender justice, gender equality, and dignity of women’. The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to examine a plea to transfer to itself cases pending in the Delhi and Rajasthan High Courts to declare a “uniform minimum age” for marriage.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde issued notice to the government on the plea by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who argued that the transfer plea had been filed to “secure gender justice, gender equality, and dignity of women”.