Mixed reaction to proposals
Justice Krishna Iyer receiving Law Minister M Vijayakumar at his residence in Kochi on WednesdayE xpress News Service First Published : 08 Jan 2009 01:12:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 08 Jan 2009 10:18:01 AM ISTKOCHI: Having completed the task assigned to him as the chairman of the Kerala Law Reforms Commission, Justice Krishna Iyer now waits for the public to discuss and react to the recommendations, which will be formally submitted to the state government on January 24.
“We have already been getting reactions to the earlier proposals,” Justice Iyer told to The New Indian Express.
“Law Minister M Vijayakumar who met me this morning said that the government will form an adhoc committee to look into the report in detail before deciding on its implementation,” said Justice Iyer.
Meanwhile, explosive topics like allowing euthanasia and doing away with polygamy, tur ning Christian Church assets transparent among others on which Justice Iyer proposed, have set the experts talking about.
The proposal supporting re-marriage, provided warranting the need for it, has raised widespread objection in the legal circle and among the religious bodies as well.
According to the recommendation, a person can marry with the consent of the present spouse provided if he or she can furnish the reasonable need for it.
“These recommendations go totally against our code of canons for marriage in our religion, which are in tune with the existing civil laws,” says Fr Kuriakose Mundadan, chief editor of the weekly, ‘Sathyadeepam’.
Legalising euthanasia or mercy killing is a proposal that has quite a few supporters.
As per the proposal, euthanasia should be allowed to the deserving patients if his/ her daughter, son or spouse and a three-member panel of doctors find it agreeable.
“Life is horrible for some patients who undergo terrible pain,” said Dr Abraham K Paul, president, Indian Medical Association (IMA).
“If the relatives agree and the person cannot recover completely, then mercy killing is fine,” he said.
On the other hand, the Bill to constitute Christian Charitable Trusts and Trust Committees at Parish, Diocese/ Revenue District and statelevels ‘for controlling the resources and finances and for the management of the properties of the churches rattled a hornet’s nest.
KCBC spokesperson Fr Stephen Alathara said that the attempt to thrust upon a legislation to constitute trusts under governmentcontrol to manage the Church properties and assets was not acceptable to the Church.The Muslim community in Kerala will oppose the attempt to ban polygamy by law, Sunni leader Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musaliyar has said in Kozhikode.
“We have already said that we will support any effort to restrict polygamy only if it conforms with the directions of the Shariat law,” said Kanthapuram.
Reacting to the recommendations regarding polygamy, he said: “Last month, the Kerala High Court said children born to couples not legally married are also legal heirs to patriarchal property.
We are doubtful about the intentions of the directions by the Law Reforms Commission and the court,” he said.
He said the “community would legally confront it once the recommendation of the Law Reforms Commission is authorised as a law by the government”.
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