The Allahabad High Court hearing a petition filed by a couple, refused to intervene saying that religious conversions for the sake of marriage cannot be accepted. Earlier on September 23rd, Judge Mahesh Chandra Tripathi had rejected the couple’s request for protection from relatives who were against their marriage. The judge had stated that the woman who was a Muslim by birth had converted into a Hindu, two days before her marriage to a Hindu man.
“The Court has perused the record in question and found that the first petitioner has converted her religion on 29.6.2020 and just after one month, they have solemnized their marriage on 31.7.2020, which clearly reveals to this Court that the said conversion has taken place only for the purpose of marriage,” the Judge mentioned in the order, adding that according to a 2014 order, conversion of religion just for the sake of marriage cannot be accepted and that it was against the mandate in Sura II Ayat 221 of the Holy Quran.
