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The Court remarked that the daughters, despite being major, educated and legally competent women, were deprived of their liberty for a prolonged period, solely because they exercised their constitutionally protected freedom of conscience and chose to profess a religion different from that professed by their family.
“We must be alive to the situation that UPPUCRA was enacted to curtail an emergent situation in society, where, certain persons go about not professing or propagating their religion, but thrusting it upon others in the belief that the religion they believe in must be followed by others.”
The Court noted that several marriages had been conducted by such societies, even of minor girls, in violation of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion 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
Allahabad High Court allowed the petitioners to prefer fresh writ petition in case they solemnize marriage after following the due procedure of law