Bringing in uniform ground for divorce, maintenance and alimony could raise obvious issues about which religious grounds should be applied across the communities, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde issued notices to the Union ministries of Home Affairs, Law and Justice and the Women and Child Development on the public interest litigation filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay.

The bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, heard senior advocate Meenakshi Arora on behalf of Upadhyay and said, ''We are issuing notice with great caution.'' The petition seeks a direction to the government to take suitable steps to remove the prevailing anomalies in the grounds of maintenance and alimony and make them uniform for all citizens without discrimination on the basis of religion, race, cast, sex or place of birth

The petition, filed through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, said in spite the eloquent provisions in the Constitution, the Central government has totally failed to provide even gender-neutral, religion-neutral uniform grounds of maintenance and alimony for all citizens.

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