Ex-Attorney General slams Muslim board over Uniform Civil Code
October 15, 2016  19:17
Slamming Muslim bodies on Saturday for their decision to boycott Uniform Civil Code, former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee said their attitude shows that regressive mentality, adding that woman cannot be treated like a community.

"I think it is meaningless. It shows a very regressive mentality. They should on the contrary give the answers and tell how triple talaq should be maintained or triple talaq may be modified," he said. 

"A Uniform Civil Code is one aspect, the main thing is the personal laws of any community with regard to gender equality and with regard to fundamental rights, because personal laws must yield to the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, whether its Muslim community, Hindu community or any other community." he added.

"A woman, a wife, cannot be treated as commodity; that is the whole point. There should be some restriction the way husband exercises his right to divorce his wife by saying 'talaq talaq talaq'," Soli said. 
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