The UCC aims to enact a common law related to birth, marriage and property rights. The tribal community is governed by its customary laws in matters of birth, divorce, partition, succession, inheritance, land and property and this is its identity, which is different from the rest of the castes, communities and religions, he said. Citing examples, Netam said in tribal society, women have freedom to marry multiple times after leaving the incumbent husband and they don’t have the right to ancestral land.

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