: Moral policing cannot be allowed, says Madhya Pradesh HC as it upholds inter-faith marriage #IndiaNEWS The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday said moral policing cannot be allowed and ruled that two

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Moral policing cannot be allowed, says Madhya Pradesh HC as it upholds inter-faith marriage #IndiaNEWS
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday said moral policing cannot be allowed and ruled that two persons, who are adults, have the constitutional right to be together, by marriage or by living together, Live Law reported.The court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by a man identified as Gulzar Khan, stating that the parents of his wife had forcibly taken her to Varanasi and illegally detained her there. Khan’s petition stated his wife, Arti Sahu, married him and converted to Islam out of her own wish. The couple got married in Bandra in Mumbai on December 28 after they eloped from their homes in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, The Indian Express reported. On January 15, the couple, who had been residing in Mumbai, were going to collect their marriage certificate when a police team from Jabalpur detained them based on a kidnapping case filed by Sahu’s family.The judge noted that Sahu, in her statement before the court via videoconference, said that she had never been forced to convert and did so as per her own wishes. She also told the court that her parents and grandparents had forcibly taken her to Varanasi where they beat her up and threatened her to give a statement against Khan.Referring to the Madhya Pradesh Freedom...Read more

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