Surveys showed that children would not call a number staffed by a government employee, certainly not the police. Given the alternate lifestyles of these children, it soon became apparent their peers were in the best position to take the phone calls and understand the gravity of the problem and the exact location of the harried child.
Legal intervention in a democratic society should promote freedom of choosing a life partner.
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 (better known as the “anti-love jihad law”) gives the impression that it is a law. Even though it has been issued by the governor of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as an ordinance, it is unfair on so many grounds that one must question if it is a law at all.
It is not a law in the sense that a democratic polity with a rule of law governance or constitutional government can recognise one. It is as much “law” as the discriminatory laws that were active against the Blacks in the history of the United States (US) and Jews in Germany. To add to its infamy, it has been passed as an ordinance without even attempting to seek a modicum of democratic legitimacy through the UP Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. To even test this “law” against the provisions and principles of the Constitution of India is