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Avinash Kumar Yadav, a third-year student at National Law University, Delhi, India, discusses the recent Love Jihad law in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India and the effect it has on the fundamental right to marry.
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 (“the Ordinance”) popularly known as the law on ‘Love Jihad’, was approved by the state cabinet on 24 November 2020 and received the assent of the Governor of Uttar Pradesh (“UP”) on 28 November 2020 making it enforceable. Section 3 of the ordinance states that no person shall convert or attempt to convert directly or otherwise any person from one religion to another by use or any practice of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage, nor should any person abet convince or conspire such conversion. The law makes religious conversion a cognizable and non-bailable offence, which might attract punishment of up to 10 yea
Yesterday, a single judge of the Allahabad High Court handed down an important judgment reading down Sections 4 & 5 of the Special Marriage Act, which requires couples to notify Marriage Officers one.
A public interest litigation has been filed before the Madhya Pradesh High Court, challenging the <i>vires</i> of the recently promulgated MP Freedom of Religion Ordinance, 2020, prohibiting religious conve.
3019 UNAMBIGUOUS: India’s higher courts have emphasised time and again the legal validity and social unassailability of interfaith marriages. PTI
Tahir Mahmood
Ex-Member, Law Commission
LOVE is blind’ is a quirky phrase being cited in the West since the beginning of the 15th century. “Love is so blind, it feels right when it’s wrong,” US star Beyoncé Knowles has been singing in our time. Cupid’s arrow can indeed break all sorts of blinds and pierce through the narrow confines of religion and caste. In India, arranged marriages have been the general social norm marriages by the parties’ own choice have been, and remain, an exception. Interfaith marriages belong to this exceptional category parents and guardians never ‘arrange’ their wards’ marriage outside their community, even in the 21st century. By no means, however, are cross-cultural marital alliances a new social phenomenon. The multi-religious society, that we have always been, has had enough spac