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The personal laws of the citizens have played a major role in helping and supporting the secular feature of our nation. This secular aspect of the Preamble allows its citizens to practice, profess, and propagate the religion of their choice as enumerated in the fundamental rights thereby creating a constant rise in need for a homogenous law for all so that no person shall feel deprived of a right. The Uniform Civil Code finds its place under Article 44 in Part IV of the Constitution of India, 1950 as a Directive Principle of State Policy which provides that it is the duty of the state to secure a Uniform Civil Code throughout the country. To bring a uniform civil code the aim is to change the personal laws of various religious communities. The personal laws include marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, maintenance, and succession which form the main domain to bring about requisite change in the societal norms to enact UCC. The said code differentiates between public laws and private laws. The theme of this paper revolves around the UCC being an ancient concept that has evolved into the notion of codification of a Uniform Civil Code. The main objective of the lawmakers has always been to foster harmony and equality amongst all but the question lies in whether the administration will be able to do so while retaining the title of being secular; whether the need to ratify an enactment which decrees the equal personal rights to all, is recurring and if so, what measures have been taken by the respective leaderships to satiate the said need. The prime objective of this paper is to crystallize the real essence of UCC by discussing variegated strands of the Uniform Civil Code including but not restricted to the existence of the Uniform Civil Code in the radicle of the Indian realm, the compelling need and requisite for the said code to be structured and tabulated by virtue of profound judgments postulated by the learned judges of the Hon'ble Supreme Court.