During a meeting of the Senate parliamentary committee on minorities' rights, Noorul Haq Qadri said the government does not support a restriction on religious conversion before 18 years of age.
Interfaith marriages find strongest opposition among the Muslim community as per the research. 80% Muslims do not want their women to marry non-Muslim men, while 76% do not want men to marry non-Muslim women.
A 23-year-old woman had registered a complaint at the Fatehgunj police station in Vadodara on Wednesday, accusing her husband Mohib Pathan of forcefully converting her to Islam.