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NEW DELHI: National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities member Tahir Mahmood has demanded that the Older Persons (Maintenance, Care and Health) Bill, 2005, should be applicable to all Indians irrespective of their religion. Reacting to media reports suggesting that the Government was planning to exempt Muslims and Christians from the Bill in deference to their personal laws, Mr. Mahmood none of its provision of the proposed legislation was in conflict with Muslim personal law. Instead, "most are in conformity with the policy of Islamic family jurisprudence." Under Muslim law, he said, "children's maintenance-liability to their parents is well established and enforceable irrespective of the parents' religion, and daughters -- regardless of their marital status -- have the same liability in this respect as sons.''
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