Updated Feb 05, 2021 | 08:59 IST
According to the police, when the teenager refused to elope with the accused, he threatened her saying that he would murder her younger brother. Teenage girl kidnapped by tutor [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The tutor allegedly told the girl that he would marry her after her religious conversion.
The teenage girl s parents filed a complaint with the police after they failed to find her on Tuesday.
A case has been registered against the accused under Section 362 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020.
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
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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
Making public notices optional under Special Marriage Act is a relief for inter-faith couples
The Allahabad High Court ruling that people marrying under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, can choose not to publicise their union with a notice 30 days in advance may not exactly be a judicial pushback against problematic anti-conversion laws enacted by several BJP-ruled States. But it serves to get a major irritant out of the way of couples wanting to marry against the wishes of their parents or their immediate community. Many intercaste and inter-faith marriages have faced violent opposition from those acting in the name of community pride or those raising the bogey of ‘love jihad’. Hindutva activists have been targeting Muslim men marrying Hindu women, especially if the women have converted to Islam prior to the marriage. The court said that mandatorily publishing a notice of the intended marriage and calling for objections violates the right to privacy. According to the new order,