Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad Firoz Bakht Ahmed has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government to constitute a judicial commission or a high-level expert committee to prepare a draft of the uniform civil code (UCC).
Mr. Ahmed, who is also the grandnephew of independent India’s first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, said the draft should be drawn in keeping with the constitutional rights and international conventions to secure gender justice, equality and dignity of women.
