New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- The Supreme Court has directed several states and union territories to notify within four months the rules for registering "Anand Karaj" or the Sikh wedding ceremony. The apex court said in a secular framework, which respects religious identity and ensures civic equality, the law must provide a neutral and workable route by which marriages through "Anand Karaj" are recorded and certified on the same footing as other marriages. "The fidelity of a constitutional promise is measured not only by the rights it proclaims, but by the institutions that make those rights usable..." a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said. In its September 4 order, the bench said when the law recognises "Anand Karaj" as a valid form of marriage yet leaves no machinery to register it, the "promise was only half kept". HtC...