Petitions filed by eight Hindu-Muslim couples for protection of life were dismissed by the Allahabad High Court since their marriages were not in compliance with the provisions of Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act..The couples, through separate petitions, had approached the Court for directions for their protection and non-interference in their matrimonial lives. All of them were dismissed on different dates between January 10-16.Justice Saral Srivastava in the orders noted that these were cases of interfaith marriages but the marriages itself were not in accordance with law as the anti-conversion law had not been followed. “In such view of the fact, the relief prayed for by the petitioners cannot be granted. Consequently, writ petition is dismissed. However, it is open to the petitioners to prefer fresh writ petition in case they solemnize marriage after following the due procedure of law,” the Court said in identically-worded orders..The anti-conversion law passed in 2021 prohibits unlawful conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, fraud, undue influence, coercion and allurement. In the eight cases before the High Court, five Muslim men had married Hindu women and three Hindu men had married Muslim women. The Court noted the religions of petitioners in the orders..Pertinently, the petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of anti-conversion laws enacted by the States of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh are pending before the Supreme Court.[Read Order]
Petitions filed by eight Hindu-Muslim couples for protection of life were dismissed by the Allahabad High Court since their marriages were not in compliance with the provisions of Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act..The couples, through separate petitions, had approached the Court for directions for their protection and non-interference in their matrimonial lives. All of them were dismissed on different dates between January 10-16.Justice Saral Srivastava in the orders noted that these were cases of interfaith marriages but the marriages itself were not in accordance with law as the anti-conversion law had not been followed. “In such view of the fact, the relief prayed for by the petitioners cannot be granted. Consequently, writ petition is dismissed. However, it is open to the petitioners to prefer fresh writ petition in case they solemnize marriage after following the due procedure of law,” the Court said in identically-worded orders..The anti-conversion law passed in 2021 prohibits unlawful conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, fraud, undue influence, coercion and allurement. In the eight cases before the High Court, five Muslim men had married Hindu women and three Hindu men had married Muslim women. The Court noted the religions of petitioners in the orders..Pertinently, the petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of anti-conversion laws enacted by the States of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh are pending before the Supreme Court.[Read Order]