Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of Allahabad High Court on Sunday attended a workshop organised by the legal cell of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and delivered a lecture on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which he said was aimed at establishing personal laws within various religious communities.
“The UCC defines the laws in the context of marriage, inheritance, divorce and adoption in any religious community,” Justice Yadav was quoted as saying at the workshop organised in the library hall of the high court.
Justice Dinesh Pathak also attended the event.
Justice Yadav was speaking on “Uniform Civil Code: A Constitutional Necessity”.
Among the other topics discussed at the event were “The Waqf Board Act” and “Religious Conversion–Causes and Prevention”.
Abhishek Atreya, national co-convener of the VHP’s legal cell and chief guest of the inaugural session of the four-session workshop, was quoted by the media as saying that Bangladesh had become a “second Kashmir” in the last few months.
There has been a spate of attacks on Hindus and other minorities as well as on temples in the neighbouring country, triggering concerns in New Delhi.
“We all should be united to protect our identity,” Atreya reportedly said.
The VHP is known for raking up controversial issues involving mosques and Muslims in India.
Justice Yadav had in 2021 denied bail to a person arrested in a cow slaughter case and observed that the cow was an “integral part of Indian culture and should be declared the national animal”.
In another order, he had observed that Parliament should pass a law to declare Ram, Krishna, the Ramayan and the Gita integral to India’s heritage.