cases the Supreme Court has tested personal laws on the touchstone of fundamental rights and read down the laws or interpreted them so as to make them consistent with fundamental rights. Though in these decisions the personal laws under challenge may not have been struck down, but the fact that the decisions were on merits go to show that though enactment of a uniform civil code may require legislative intervention but the discriminatory aspects of personal laws can definitely be challenged as being violative of the fundamental rights of women under Articles 14 and 15 and can be struck down. Masilamani Mudaliar v. The Supreme Court in Idol of Sri Swaminathaswami Thirukoil has held that personal laws, to the extent that they are in violation of the fundamental rights, are void. from the ongoing struggle for a uniform civil code in accordance with the Constitutional framework, today the India women are fighting for rights in marital property, denied uniformly to them across all religious boundaries. There is also a significant movement in some of the hill states, towards community ownership of land by women by
cases the Supreme Court has tested personal laws on the touchstone of fundamental rights and read down the laws or interpreted them so as to make them consistent with fundamental rights. Though in these decisions the personal laws under challenge may not have been struck down, but the fact that the decisions were on merits go to show that though enactment of a uniform civil code may require legislative intervention but the discriminatory aspects of personal laws can definitely be challenged as being violative of the fundamental rights of women under Articles 14 and 15 and can be struck down. The Supreme Court in Masilamani Mudaliar v. Idol of Sri Swaminathaswami Thirukoil has held that personal laws, to the extent that they are in violation of the fundamental rights, are void. from the ongoing struggle for a uniform civil code in accordance with the Constitutional framework, today the India women are fighting for rights in marital property, denied uniformly to them across all religious boundaries. There is also a significant movement in some of the hill states, towards community ownership of land by women by