NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday ruled that the mandatory publishing of notice for interfaith marriages under the Speical Marriages Act, 1954 will now be optional. While giving notice under Section 5 of the Act of 1954, it shall be optional for the parties to the intended marriage to make a request in writing to the Marriage Officer to publish or not to publish a notice under Section 6 and follow the procedure of objections as prescribed under the Act of 1954, the court said in its 47-page order. In case they do not make such a request for publication of notice in writing, while giving notice under Section 5 of the Act, the Marriage Officer shall not publish any such notice or entertain objections to the intended marriage and proceed with the solemnization of the marriage, the order further said.
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The provision for mandatory publication of notice, derived through “simplistic reading” of the particular law, “would invade in the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy, including within its sphere freedom to choose for marriage without interference from state and non-state actors, of the persons concerned,” the court said in a judgement delivered on January 12.
A three-judge Bench led by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman said the plea had to be considered by a Constitution Bench because the original verdict, striking down Section 497 (adultery) of the Indian Penal Code, was pronounced by a five-judge Bench in September 2018.
problems and tensions later on. a lot of us underestimate how important faith is to us. as we get older the anal of marriage is rising and our 20 s are a very secular time in our lives. a lot of people drop out of church. they don t think of themselves as religious. once they get married and they have children, these kind of feelings come rushing back. now you re in a partnership with someone who didn t think you were particularly religious. and where do you go from there i think is a hard question. gretchen: you are not saying that it s necessarily wrong for a husband and wife to see the world differently. it comes down to the kids and how you choose to raise them. and then what typically happens is you ve already made the choice before you have the kids. so they go in one direction. or there is no religion in the family? right. i think certainly a lot of interfaith couples, a plurality of them, according to my study, choose to raise children in no faith. but i think a lot of them
religious beliefs, however, as you point out, governor cuomo recently gave a statement that when you enforce the laws of the state, as you are saying, you don t get to pick and choose which one of those you get enforce. i know you have filed a lawsuit. what do you hope to gape by going through the legal process now? well, i think that we just want to be able to go back into that clerk s office on any day that it s open and get a license. just like any other american. deidra, did you find out whether or not if she gives licenses to adulterers, interfaith couples, multiraced couples or even those wearing mixed fibers? we have no idea, actually, but i do know we have friends who are divorced and they did go and get a license from had her several years ago. we didn t learn that until after the fact. so i m not sure what ms. belforte s position is on some of these other issues are but i think that s the concern, is one