A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde additionally allowed Muslim physique Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind to turn out to be a celebration to the petition on the bottom that numerous Muslims are being harassed underneath these legal guidelines throughout the nation.
The apex court docket on January 6 had agreed to look at controversial new legal guidelines of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand regulating spiritual conversions resulting from interfaith marriages.
The bench, additionally comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, nevertheless, refused to remain the controversial provisions of the legal guidelines and issued notices to each the state governments on two totally different petitions.
The pleas, filed by advocate Vishal Thakre and others and an NGO ‘Citizen for Justice and Peace’, have challenged the Constitutional validity of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 and the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act, 2018 which regulate spiritual conversions of interfaith marriages.
