A writ petition has been filed before the Allahabad High Court challenging the constitutional validity of the UP Government s controversial Ordinance against religious conversions in the name of love jihad .
He has urged the Court to declare this law as
ultra vires the Constitution and in the interim, direct the authorities not to take any coercive action in pursuance thereof.
On October 31, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, had made a statement that his government will bring a law against love-jihad , a term used to discredit marriages between Muslim men and Hindu women as part of a conspiracy to cause the conversion of Hindu women. During his public statement, the Chief Minister referred to a single bench judgment of the Allahabad High Court in the case