Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has said that with the reading of amendments to anti-conversion laws, known as the law of Jihad Love, it feels prima facie that each conversion after the interfaith marriage will commit the violation and marriage itself and the conversion will be considered to violate the law.
In the order released on Friday, while staying various provisions of the Gujarat Law of Religion (Amendment) related to Interfaith’s marriage, the Head of the Division of Judge Vikram Nath and Justice Biren Vaishnav argued that with the amendment June 2021, a marriage itself was peeled into a medium for The purpose of conversion that violates the law if the marriage is by perspective, strength or by fraud.
“Prima Facie on the Plain Reading Part 3 of Law 2003, we feel that the inter-faith marriage is followed by conversion will amount to violations based on the 2003 Law.
The marriage itself and consequential conversion are considered conversions that violate the laws that attract criminal provisions” which is noted by the court.
It is said that the government’s insistence that the element of fraud, loans or coercion must be read with the state of the object and the reason for action, but this may not be understood by ordinary people.
On shifting the expenses of evidence to those accused of determining that the conversion of marriage and then it has not occurred because of fraud, he said, “this again puts the parties legally to enter the marriage between different.” “Prima Facie Interfaith Marribangster between two adults with surgery the provisions of the actions disrupt the intricacies of marriage including the right to someone’s choice,” he said.