Parliamentary Debates. Parliament of India. Official Report. Wednesday 19th September 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers

I was dealing with the second point I have now lo. iked into the matter and gone into the entire body of opin- ion circulated to us in the report of the Hindu Law Committee and I find to my dismay that not one authentic opinion on behalf of the Sikh com- munity has agreed to this Bill. [...] There the custom is the primary rule of decision to the exclusion of Shariat as well as the Hindu Law. [...] the Prime Minister stated the other day that the House will rise on the nth. [...] I think that any lawyer Member of this House should be able to understand that that would ne the position, so that when the other parts come to be discussed it would be open to the House to see whether the same definition which is given now as to the territorial appli- cability of this part or the social :. pplicability of this part should be the same as will be enacted so far as this part is conce [...] Tr regard to the other parts of the Bill it was said that a fresh Bill would be introduced which would also cover the applicability of this Bill to the territories or communities.