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More than a twelvemonth aft the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) was implemented successful Uttarakhand successful January 2025, the State constabulary person been incapable to registry cases nether applicable sections of the instrumentality arsenic the centralised online level to record FIRs, chargesheets, and probe reports is awaiting a bundle update.
All constabulary stations successful the state are linked done the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), which was launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs with the purpose of digitising constabulary presumption records, tracking crimes and criminals successful real-time, and centralising information crossed the state for faster investigation, improved decision-making, and enhanced nationalist services specified arsenic e-filing of complaints.
The contented came to airy erstwhile Shaheen, a nonmigratory of Haridwar, approached the Buggawala constabulary presumption to record a ailment against her hubby and in-laws. She alleged that she was subjected to carnal unit and intelligence harassment soon aft matrimony implicit dowry demands.
She claimed that her hubby gave her triple talaq and that erstwhile she asked him to reconsider the decision, helium told her to archetypal undergo halala. The signifier involves a divorced Muslim pistillate marrying different man, consummating the marriage, and past divorcing him to remarry her archetypal husband.
Based connected the complaint, the constabulary registered an FIR connected April 4 nether applicable provisions of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights connected Marriage) Act, 2019, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
On Sections 30 and 32 of the UCC that penalise triple talaq and halala not being invoked successful the case, a elder constabulary serviceman said provisions of the instrumentality person not yet been uploaded connected the CCTNS.
“A petition for summation of the UCC sections has to beryllium sent to the Union Home Department from the State Home Department. I cannot remark connected whether the State Home Department has sent the petition to the Centre oregon if the Central authorities are liable for the hold [in updating the database],” the serviceman said.
Despite repeated attempts, Uttarakhand DGP Deepam Seth could not beryllium contacted for remark connected the matter.
Criticising the Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government, State Congress vice president and All India Congress Committee subordinate Suryakant Dhasmana said it is astonishing that a instrumentality being promoted politically crossed the state has not been afloat implemented successful Uttarakhand.
He besides took a excavation astatine Mr. Dhami for celebrating 1 twelvemonth of the UCC’s implementation without being alert of the crushed reality.
“This hold shows that the BJP is not superior astir the UCC oregon delivering justness to immoderate assemblage oregon gender. This instrumentality is thing but an overhyped matrimony registration platform. All that this enactment is funny successful is winning elections by dividing people,” Mr. Dhasmana said..
