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interfaith marriage

News Reports

Read why Kerala Church has declared an interfaith marriage between a Catholic woman and a Muslim man invalid

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2021

The Syro-Malabar church had set rules to ensure that interfaith marriages in Christian community follows the canon law.

News Reports

Uttarakhand: Muslim woman takes up Hinduism and marries a Hindu man, court grants protection as couple fears threat from woman’s brother

OpIndia Staff - 26 December, 2020

The Muslim woman had approached the Uttarakhand HC saying that her brother might physically harm them for marrying out of faith

News Reports

Meerut: Muslim woman marries Hindu man, says she didn’t tell her family about it as she feared they would kill her

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2020

Muslim woman Farha said that she did not tell about her marriage with Hindu man Naman to her family as she feared that her family would get her killed

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt to scrap controversial scheme that rewarded ‘interfaith’ marriages: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

Uttarakhand, which retained most of the laws from the parent state Uttar Pradesh, had also continued with the controversial 1976 scheme that incentivised interfaith marriages.

Opinions

Indian law never defined “marriage”: Here is why govt needs to be involved in inter-faith “marriage”

Abhishek Banerjee - 26 November, 2020

A number of very different legal institutions are grouped under the loose word “marriage.” Naturally therefore, the government has to step in and make rules about how to move between these very different institutions.

Law

Religious conversion without having faith, just for sake of marriage, is not valid: Read details of what the Allahabad High Court said

OpIndia Staff - 31 October, 2020

Court observed that religious conversion just for the sake of marriage is illegal. Saying so the court dismissed the plea made by the newly married couple.

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