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The Court further pointed out that while considering the bail applications, the factors which are required to be considered are nature of offence, gravity thereof and societal impact etc.
Allahabad High Court said that the informant in her statement recorded under Section 164 CrPC had categorically submitted that she was forced to accept ‘Islam’ and Nikaah was performed. Thus, the applicant being “Religion Convertor” is equally liable under the Act, 2021.
The statement of object and reason for enforcing the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, was to provide for prohibition of unlawful conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto
“It is against the Constitutional mandate of Article 25 of the Constitution which does not provide for religious conversion, it only provides freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion.“
by Ravi Shankar* and Akanksha Natesan**
Allahabad High Court remarked that Maulana Syed claims himself to be an Islamic religious scholar and he has claimed that he had made the statements “In light of the provisions of Holy Quran and Islamic jurisprudence” and “In the light of Shia school of thought, philosophy & jurisprudence” but he has not referred to a single verse of the Holy Quran.
Allahabad High Court: Prakash Padia, J., reserved a judgment in a plea which was filed challenging the maintainability of a civil suit
Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Pankaj Naqvi and Vivek Agarwal, JJ., observed that, Right to live with a person of his/her