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From sati to interfaith marriages, institution of marriage has undergone sea change: SCThe Supreme Court of India has stated that the institution of marriage has undergone significant changes over time, from practices like sat...- Constitution has broken traditions: Supreme Court on same-sex marriage"We went so far to hold untouchability as unconstitutional. I do not think any other Constitution says that. Traditions are there to the ex...
- Gujarat to move apex court against High Court stay on conversion law sectionsAmong other sections, which mainly deal with religious conversion through marriage, the Gujarat High Court had also stayed the operation of...
- View: Irony of ironies - Indian ‘love jihad’ laws are modelled on Islamic lawsAround two dozen countries don’t have a provision for civil marriage between individuals of different religious faiths. Almost all these co...
- SC allows HP, MP to be made parties to plea against laws on conversion due to interfaith marriageThe bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, however, refused to stay the controversial provisions of the laws an...
- Challenge to law on religious conversions: SC refuses to transfer to itself cases from Allahabad HCThe bench said, "We have issued notice does not mean that the High Court cannot decide the issue".
- Muslim body moves SC, seeks to be party in pleas against state laws on religious conversionJamiat Ulama-I-Hind in its application said that similar legislations are also being enacted or planned by various other states which also ...
- SC refuses to stay UP, Uttarakhand anti-conversion laws; to hear pleas against themA bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde refused To stay the controversial provisions of the laws, but issued notices to UP and Uttarakhan...
- None can interfere if an adult marries as per her choice, and converts: Calcutta HCAfter a 19-year old woman married a person of her choice, her father petitioned the high court, complaining that his daughter's statement b...
- Made marriage law because women were complaining of forced conversion, says Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi AdityanathThe Uttar Pradesh government's Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance has drawn flak from across the country, but Uttar P...
- View: Supreme Court should strike down ‘love jihad’ lawsThe apex court should consider throwing out all the new laws on the ground that forced conversion is already illegal. The draconian love ji...
- View: Interfaith marriages must be celebrated, not criminalisedLove jihad sounds gender neutral, but in reality it’s a pernicious anti-woman term aimed at denying agency and individual freedom to women.
- Madhya Pradesh govt to bring law against 'love jihad', 5-year jailMadhya Pradesh on Tuesday became the fifth BJP-ruled state in the last one month to promise a strict law against “love jihad”, which has lo...
- Assam government declares war on ‘marriages by deception’“In Assam, we are seeing the emergence of two to three new trends. Many Muslim boys create fake Facebook accounts with Hindu names and post...
- SC issues notice to govt on petition requiring couples to give public notices before marrying across religionsThe law requires those seeking to marry under the Act to place a public notice giving out their details 30 days before the intended marriag...
- Uniform civil code neither necessary nor desirable: Law panelThe panel, whose three-year term ended today, said diversity of Indian culture should be celebrated, but specific groups, or weaker section...
- Passport officer refutes couple's charges, says he didn't ask husband to 'convert to Hinduism'The officer said the wife had presented a marriage certificate for verification that had different name in comparison to the other document...
- No plans to give incentives for inter-religious marriages: Government"As of now, there is no plan to extend the scheme (Dr Ambedkar Scheme for Social Integration) to inter-religion marriages," Vijay Sampla sa...
- Road ahead: End of triple talaq a gateway to Uniform Civil Code?With SC upholding the dignity of Muslim women by abolishing the discriminatory triple talaq, similar gender justice may be on the anvil for...
- Supreme Court to revisit ruling on Parsi girls marrying non-ParsisThe same logic was once used by the Puri pandas to keep former PM Indira Gandhi out of the Puri temple although she was a Hindu by birth.
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