Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 13:40 IST
The SC will hear petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, and the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act, 2018. Supreme Court of India
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday agreed to examine the controversial state laws in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand on religious conversions due to interfaith marriages. The apex court, however, refused to stay controversial provisions in these laws.
The laws brought to tackle the so-called love jihad cases of Muslim men luring Hindu women to marry for conversion, seek to regulate interfaith marriages and religious conversions. However, they have fetched widespread criticism for being based on the right-wing theory of ‘love jihad’.