SC Turns Down UP Govt's Application to Transfer Pleas Challenging 'Love Jihad' Law to Itself
"If the Allahabad high court is seized of it, we are not going to hear before it, why should we stop the HC?"
The Supreme Court of India. Photo: Reuters
Law25/Jan/2021
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused the Uttar Pradesh government’s plea to transfer to the apex court all petitions challenging the ‘love jihad’ ordinance filed in the Allahabad high court.
“If the Allahabad high court is going to decide the cases, why should we interfere?” a bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde was quoted by