Dehradun, Feb. 20 -- Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami stated that the provision of the registering live-in-relationship in the Uniform Civil Code has been made to deter incidents like the Shraddha Walkar murder case.

Defending the provision, CM Dhami told reporters here,"...In the Uniform Civil Code, we have made a provision to register live-in relationships so that no one like Aaftab can do such brutality again. What is wrong with this? When we were drafting the UCC, we had called opposition parties, including Congress, to give their views..."

Shraddha Walkar was allegedly murdered by her live-in partner, Aftab Amin Poonawala, on May 18, 2022. After the killing, the accused cut off the body into 35 pieces and threw them i...