‘Conversion just for marriage’s sake not acceptable’: Allahabad High Court dismisses couple’s plea

Allahabad High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by a married couple searching for police safety, in accordance with a Live Law report. The excessive courtroom famous the girl was a Muslim and transformed to Hinduism only a month earlier than she acquired married, in accordance with Live Law.

Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi mentioned it clearly reveals that the conversion came about just for the aim of the wedding. Justice Tripathi referred to a 2014 judgement during which the identical courtroom had noticed that conversion only for the aim of marriage is unacceptable. The courtroom then dismissed the writ petition, saying that it isn’t inclined to intervene within the matter underneath Article 226 of Constitution of India.

In the 2014 judgement, the Allahabad High Court had dismissed a batch of writ petitions have been filed searching for safety by a pair as that they had tied the knot after the girl transformed from Hinduism to Islam after which carried out the nikah. “Whether conversion of the religion of a Hindu girl at the instance of a Muslim boy, without any knowledge of Islam or faith and belief in Islam and merely for the purpose of Marriage (Nikah) is valid?” the courtroom had mentioned concerning the case then, in accordance with Live Law.

“A conversion of religion by an individual to Islam can be said to be bonafide if he/she is major and of sound mind and embraces Islam by his/her own free will and because of his/her faith and belief in the oneness of God (Allah) and prophetic character of Mohamed,” the courtroom had noticed whereas answering the query in adverse and reiterating the Supreme Court’s stand within the case of Lily Thomas vs Union of India.

“If a conversion is not inspired by religion feeling and undergone for its own sake, but is resorted merely with the object of creating a ground for some claim of right or as a device adopted for the purpose to avoid marriage or to achieve an object without faith and belief in the unity of God (Allah) and Mohamed to be his prophet, the conversion shall not be bonafide. In case of a religious conversion there should be a change of heart and honest conviction in the tenets of the new religion in lieu of tenets of the original religion,” it had added.