The woman had converted her religion exactly one month before her marriage. (Representative)
Lucknow:
Religious conversion – purely for marriage purposes – is not acceptable, the Allahabad High Court said, referring to an earlier order as it refused to intervene in a couple’s petition, seeking three protection. months after their marriage. The woman who filed the petition is Muslim by birth but converted to Hinduism a month before her marriage to a Hindu.
In an order issued on September 23, a single judge bench of Judge Mahesh Chandra Tripathi dismissed the couple’s petition for a brief asking the court that their loved ones would not interfere with their marital life by “ adopting coercive measures ” .
In his order, Judge Tripathi said the woman was a Muslim by birth and converted her religion from Islam to Hinduism in June of this year, exactly one month and two days before her marriage.
“The Court went through the file in question and concluded that the first petitioner had converted her religion on 29.6.2020 and just after one month they celebrated their marriage on 31.7.2020, which clearly reveals to the Court that said conversion took place solely for the purpose of marriage, ”says the ordinance.
In his order, the judge also referred to an order issued in 2014 by the same court which he said had “ observed that conversion for the sole purpose of marriage is unacceptable. ”
The 2014 judgment in the Smt. Noor Jahan Begum @ Anjali Mishra & Anr. v. State of the U.P. & Ors.) Also says: “ So the conversion from religion to Islam, in the current body of facts, of girls without their faith and belief in Islam and at the request of boys, only to purposes of marriage, cannot be said to be a valid conversion to the Islamic religion. These marriages (Nikah) are against the mandate of sura II Ayat 221 of the Holy Quran “.
The court also left the possibility for the applicants to appear before the relevant magistrate in their region to record their statements.
