Wednesday, September 28, 2011: The recommendations of Justice VR
Krishna Iyer headed Commission on Rights and Welfare of Women and Child
for promoting a two-child norm with cash incentives in the draft of
Kerala Women’s Code Bill drew wide criticism from a cross section of the
society.
The two-child norm proposed by the commission was ‘inhuman’ and the government should reject the recommendations, which
‘violates’ individual liberty and fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Kerala unit President Panakkad Hyderali Shihab Thangal said in a statement at Malappuram district.
‘violates’ individual liberty and fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Kerala unit President Panakkad Hyderali Shihab Thangal said in a statement at Malappuram district.
The birth control recommended in the report in the name of controlling the population would encourage female foeticide, he said.
The Constitution has given people the right to follow any religion
and propagate it. Without considering religious beliefs and god, laws
cannot be formed, he said. ‘At a time when we take credit in our human
resources, such recommendations does not befit to a developing country’,
he said.
