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New Delhi, January 6 The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the provisions of an Uttar Pradesh Ordinance and a Uttarakhand law aimed at checking unlawful religious conversions for inter-faith marriages. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, however, issued notice to the two states asking them to respond in four weeks to petitions filed by Vishal Thakre and others and NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace challenging the controversial UP Ordinance and the Uttarakhand law. At the outset, a disinclined CJI said, The challenge is already pending in high courts. Why don t you go there? We are not saying you have a bad case. But you must approach the high courts in the first instance instead of coming to the Supreme Court directly. ....
The legal ramifications of the recently promulgated Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 are examined by juxtaposing popular perceptions of inter-religious marriages as “dishonourable” to the concerned families and communities, with a feminist perspective of women’s agency and exercise of choice in marriage. The key to preventing the phenomenon of conversion for marriage lies not in enacting draconian legislations that arm the state machinery with arbitrary powers, but in streamlining and simplifying procedures under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 that allow for inter-religious marriages without religious conversion of either person. In December 2020, the Lucknow Police prevented a consensual inter-religious marriage between a Hindu woman and a Muslim man after objections by a non-state, vigilante group (Rehman 2020). Following this, a Hindu woman in Moradabad who had converted to Islam of her own accord and married a Muslim ma ....