Living in live-in without registration will be a crime, the committee submitted the final report of UCC to the Chief Minister.

• The UCC committee submitted the final report to the Chief Minister.
• Recommendation to make registration of live-in relationships mandatory.
• Provision of offense for remaining without registration.

Bhopal. Registration will be made mandatory in live-in relationships in Madhya Pradesh. If someone does not register and lives in a live-in situation, it will fall under the category of crime.

If someone wants to separate from live-in, he will have to apply to the registrar. This recommendation has been made in the final draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill to be implemented in Madhya Pradesh.

In fact, the high level committee formed for the Uniform Civil Code headed by retired judge Ranjana Prakash Desai reached the Chief Minister’s residence late on Monday evening and submitted the report of the Code to Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav.

Chief Minister Dr. Yadav thanked all the members including the Chairman for submitting the report within the time limit. On this occasion, committee member Prof. Gopal Sharma, Budhpal Singh, Shobha Paithankar and committee member secretary Ajay Katesaria were present.

In the report submitted to Chief Minister Dr. Yadav, the report of the committee is compiled in 3 sections. The first section contains the report of the committee’s recommendations and in this the committee has analyzed various international, national and state laws and practices and reported its recommendations.

There are 10 chapters in this section. The second section of the report is in the form of a draft of the bill. The draft of the bill proposed by the committee has been prepared in view of the laws and rules prevalent in Madhya Pradesh. The proposed bill has 4 parts, 404 sections and 7 schedules.

The third section submitted to Chief Minister Dr. Yadav contains the public consultation report, which contains details of the extensive public consultation conducted by the committee at the district level, state level and through the website. The committee had received more than 9.58 lakh consultations. Their question-wise, gender-wise and community-wise analysis is included in this section.

The committee has recommended keeping Scheduled Tribes out of the Uniform Civil Code. It is noteworthy that the high level committee constituted by the state government was entrusted with the responsibility of studying the prevailing arrangements related to various personal and family matters, such as marriage, divorce, maintenance, succession, adoption and live-in relationships.

According to the above, the committee has done the work of preparing the draft according to the social, cultural and economic conditions of Madhya Pradesh.

The committee has worked in the direction of fundamental principles, ensuring gender equality, leaving various ritualistic practices unaffected, respecting prevailing customs and traditions and constitutional provisions and public policy.

Chief Minister Dr. Yadav also thanked the chairperson of the committee, retired judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, committee member and senior advisor Shatrughan Singh and member Anoop Nair, who could not be present due to personal reasons.

The report received by the committee has been transferred to the Law Department of the State Government. After the refinement of the bill and the process of the Senior Secretary Committee, the bill is likely to be tabled in the Assembly in the monsoon session starting from July 20 after the approval of the Council of Ministers.

In the final report of UCC, a provision has been proposed for live-in relationships that it will be mandatory for those living in it to register.

If someone is living in an unregistered house and information about it is received, a criminal case will be registered. After registration, this information will be given to the concerned police station and relatives, that is, no one will be able to remain hidden.

If there is a disagreement between the two or they want to separate voluntarily, then there will be a similar system like registration for this. That means you will have to apply to the Registrar.

The child born live will get all the inheritance. Along with this, a provision has also been made that the child’s property will go to both the parents. After the death of the husband, the rights will remain with the mother.

Tribal, nomadic-semi-nomadic and converted tribals will not come under the purview of UCC. All these will be kept out of the scope of UCC. There will be similar provisions for everyone for marriage and divorce. No one will have any privileges.

If passed by the Assembly, with the permission of the Governor, the Government will send it to the President for assent. It will be implemented after approval from here. Sources say that this process may take four-five months.

After this rules will be made. With this, Madhya Pradesh will be the fourth state in the country to implement UCC. It has been implemented in Uttarakhand. It has been passed by the Gujarat and Assam Assemblies and is in the process of being implemented.