: ‘Love jihad’: Allahabad HC issues notice to UP government on pleas challenging law on conversion #IndiaNEWS The Allahabad High Court on Friday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government, asking

‘Love jihad’: Allahabad HC issues notice to UP government on pleas challenging law on conversion #IndiaNEWS
The Allahabad High Court on Friday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government, asking it to file counter affidavits to a batch of petitions challenging the recently passed law aimed at preventing forced conversions for inter-faith marriages, reported Live Law. The court, however, refused to grant interim relief in the form of a stay order.The bench of Justices Govind Mathur and Piyush Agrawal has asked the state government to file the affidavits by January 4, while the petitioners can file a rejoinder affidavit by January 6. The matter will be heard next on January 7.The petitioners have submitted that the law impinges upon their fundamental rights and violates Article 14 (Right to Equality), 15 (Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, etc.), 21 (Right to life) and 25 (Freedom of conscience, etc) of the Constitution, according to Live Law. The petitions also state that there was no emergent ground to exercise Article 213 of the Constitution, under which a state government is empowered to introduce an ordinance, to bring forth a law.The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, promulgated by Governor Anandiben Patel last month, is aimed at tackling “love jihad??? – a conspiracy theory espoused by right-wing Hindutva activists, alleging that Hindu women are forcibly converted...Read more

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