New Delhi, March 11 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that long-standing concerns over gender discrimination in personal laws may ultimately require legislative action in the form of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), as it heard a petition challenging Muslim inheritance rules as discriminatory against women. During the hearing, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justices R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi repeatedly pointed to the constitutional directive for a UCC, suggesting that structural reforms in personal laws across communities may be better addressed through legislation rather than judicial intervention. "The answer is a Uniform Civil Code," observed the bench while hearing submissions from advocate Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for the petitioners. The court was considering a writ petition, moved by advocate Poulomi Pavini Shukla and Nyaya Naari Foundation, challenging provisions of Muslim personal law relating to inheritance, which the petitioners argued deny Muslim women equal rights compared to men....