New Delhi

BJP leader Shazia Ilmi on Friday approached the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre to frame guidelines for a uniform common code for all faiths in matters of claiming maintenance and alimony.

A bench comprising justices Sanjiv Khanna and JK Maheshwari tagged the plea with a similar pending petition.

The PIL sought a common code for all personal laws for spouses, children and elderly parents to claim justifiable and fair maintenance, irrespective of the personal laws of different faiths as a matter of human rights and fundamental rights as enshrined under Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Indian constitution.

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The plea noted that as the faiths are different, the grounds for maintenance also vary, and the vulnerable groups are deprived of their entitlement of legitimate fair claim because of discrepancies in their personal laws which result in sheer violation of human rights.