Bengaluru, April 6 -- The High Court of Karnataka has appealed to Parliament and state legislatures to move forward with the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), calling it a crucial step toward realising the Constitutional ideals of justice, equality, secularism, and national unity.

The comment was made by the single bench of Justice Sanjiv Kumar during the hearing of a case related to a property dispute.

The case was related to the partition of the property of a Muslim woman, Shahnaz Begum, after her death, in which the woman's husband and her siblings were parties.

The Court found that there was a huge difference in the rights of women under various religious laws, which hurt the constitutional principle of equality.

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