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SC wants draft of Hindu marriage bill approved in 2 weeks
[DAWN] The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Tuesday to ensure that the draft of the proposed Hindu Marriage Registration Bill was laid before the cabinet for final approval in two weeks.The directions were issued when the attention of a three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk, was drawn to the issue by Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, patron-in-chief of the Pakistain Hindu Council. The court had taken up a case relating to the implementation of a set of guidelines handed down in a June 19 judgment on minority rights. The issue relating to the absence of a Hindu marriage registration law has been highlighted before the Supreme Court more than once. In 2012, a bench headed by then chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had taken up a similar issue over a newspaper column that pointed out problems faced by Hindus living in Pakistain in obtaining Computerised National Identity Cards and passports. Posted by: Fred 2015-01-14 |
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