Delhi faces 5,000 pending government cases as CM Rekha Gupta launches a major legal overhaul to fast-track litigation and clear the growing judicial backlog effectively.
Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code, signed into law on March 13 by President Droupadi Murmu, introduces standardized regulations for marriage, divorce, and property inheritance. This milestone legislation marks the state’s progressive shift towards legal harmonization, prohibiting polygamy and ‘halala’ while empowering women with specific divorce rights. Other BJP-governed states like Gujarat and Assam are showing interest in similar reforms.
