The Joint Commissioner for Government Examinations rejected the application, stating that the petitioner can produce the Gazette notification as there is no provision or practice or rules providing for correction in the School Leaving Certificate.
Two petitions have sought gender and religion-neutral laws in adoption and guardianship and for divorce and alimony in tune with the spirit of the Constitution after considering international laws as well.
The petitioner in person has submitted that the court would very well be within its jurisdiction to issue a direction as prayed for in the petition to ameliorate the condition with regard to a particular sect or religion.
Religion is a belief system that integrates culture, teachings, practices, personal experiences, and artistic expressions which relate people to what they perceive to be transcendent. Religion has two facets which divides the world on the one hand and unites the globe in it’s own ways on the other.
In the time of Covid-19 when the guidelines of the centre are often flouted by irresponsible people, it is time to look at the Fundamental Duties of citizens to promote social and communal harmony.