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.
Allahabad high court. (File photo)
PRAYAGRAJ: Observing once again that “nobody should interfere in the peaceful life of two adults residing together by their own free will”, the Allahabad high court in a recent order asked Bijnor police to provide protection to an interfaith couple from their respective family members. Last month, the high court, with a similar observation, had provided protection to another interfaith couple from Moradabad.
One Shaista Parveen alias Sangeeta and her husband, a Muslim, had moved a writ petition on December 16, 2019, stating they had solemnized their marriage and living together by their own free will, but were being harassed by their family members.
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While delivering the order, the single judge bench reiterated that no one was entitled to disrupt the lives of two adults who choose to live together willingly.
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