New Delhi: Supreme Court while striking down a provision for Indian Succession Act has observed that a common civil code would help the cause of national integration.

The judgment was delivered by a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice V N Khare while allowing a petition filed by one John Valliamattom challenging the Constitutional validity of Section 118 of the Indian Succession Act imposing restriction on a person to donate by means of a will his property even if he had loving near relatives.

PTI