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New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday allowed advocate Vishal Thakre to withdraw his petition and granted him the liberty to approach Madhya Pradesh High Court in connection with his plea challenging the recent law in the state prohibiting religious conversion of marriages.
A three-judge bench of the Apex Court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde and also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian allowed to withdraw the plea.
The lawyer-cum-petitioner, Thakre, pleaded to the Top Court for withdrawing his petition from it, to which, the CJI led bench allowed his prayer and asked him, to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court with his petition and prayers.
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The top court had also refused to hear some other pleas on the issue in past.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea challenging the validity of controversial Madhya Pradesh ordinance regulating conversions due to inter-faith marriages.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde asked petitioner lawyer Vishal Thakre to go to the Madhya Pradesh high court in the proceedings conducted through video conferencing.
“Approach the Madhya Pradesh high court. We would like to have the views of the high court. We have sent similar matters back to the high court,” said the bench which also comprised Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian.
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Supreme Court of India. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea challenging the validity of controversial Madhya Pradesh ordinance regulating conversions due to interfaith marriages.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde asked petitioner lawyer Vishal Thakre to go to the Madhya Pradesh high court in the proceedings conducted through video conferencing.
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