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NEW DELHI, February 9: The Supreme Court of India on Monday underscored the right of the adults to choose their life partner, and added that it is time society learns to accept inter-caste and inter-faith marriages without hounding the couples who marry outside their caste or religion.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy further noted that it would “hardly be a desirable social exercise” for parents to shun their children only because they decided to marry outside their caste or community.
The judges, in their order, also emphasised the need for specific guidelines and a training module for policemen to deal with such “socially sensitive cases”, so that couples can get due protection available to them under the law should the parents lodge criminal cases against them.
Legal experts opined that it might not be "legally sustainable", as similar laws passed in other BJP-ruled states have been challenged in the Supreme Court.
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GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has decided not to enact the anti-love jihad law for the time being. The decision was made after legal experts, including the advocate general, opined that the new law might not be legally sustainable.
Highly placed government sources said that following the adverse opinion, the government, in most likelihood, will not introduce the bill in the budget session of the assembly which begins from March 1.
After BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh enacted the laws to curb love jihad, the Gujarat government had expressed its resolve to introduce the law, too. This, despite the fact that the Gujarat government already has an anti-conversion law which prohibits conversion from one religion to another by the use of force or allurement or by fraudulent means.
SC refuses to entertain plea challenging laws dealing with religious conversion
By PTI| Published: 3rd February 2021 8:24 pm IST Photo: Supreme Court of India
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to entertain a plea challenging the validity of laws enacted by states, including Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, which deal with religious conversion by marriage and others.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, while saying that the petitioner should approach the concerned high court, observed that the issue raised is important and the high courts of Allahabad and Uttarakhand are already dealing with petitions on it.
We are not on merits at all. Allahabad and Uttarakhand high courts are entertaining similar petitions. We are not denying the importance of matter at all. We are saying we would like to have the benefit of high courts view, said the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian.