India, Feb. 12 -- The Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government and the Centre, seeking their responses within six weeks on a writ petition that challenged various provisions of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), implemented in the state on January 27.

The division bench of chief justice G Narendar and justice Ashish Naithani issued the notices while hearing the petition filed by Dehradun-based Almasuddin Siddiqui and Haridwar-based Ikram.

"We have pleaded before the court that the law prescribed in the Quran and its verses is an essential religious practice for every Muslim. UCC prescribes the procedure for religious matters which is absolutely contrary to the verses of the Quran. We have pleaded that to rem...