Uttarakhand Panel Submits Sweeping Reforms for Gender Equality, Including Banning Polygamy and Equalizing Property and Divorce Rights
• Panel submitted 740-page, 4-volume draft UCC report to Uttarakhand CM aimed at gender equality, excludes tribals
• Recommends banning polygamy regardless of religion, minimum marriage age of 18 for women
• Suggests mandatory registration for live-in relationships, makes halala, iddat, some triple talaq punishable
• Equal inheritance rights for women in ancestral property, equal adoption/divorce rights
• Report to be tabled in state cabinet Saturday, then legislative assembly Tuesday before draft bill