Supreme Court Dismisses PILs Seeking Uniform Religion & Gender Neutral Laws On Divorce, Adoption & Maintenance

30 March 2023

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the batch of petitions filed by

Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay seeking gender neutral and religion neutral legislations

in matters governing divorce, adoption, guardianship, succession/inheritance, and

maintenance across the country. The bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice

PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala held that the...