Written by Asad Rehman, Jignasa Sinha | Lucknow, New Delhi | Updated: December 20, 2020 11:54:24 am Rashid Ali and Saleem Ali with their family after their release in the Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. (Express photo) A 22-year-old man detained under Uttar Pradesh’s new anti-conversion law in …
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Written by Manish Sahu | Lucknow | December 15, 2020 4:33:19 am Speaking to reporters after Rashid’s arrest on Saturday morning, Pinki, who is three months pregnant, had said that the two were going to register their marriage when the police caught them. Rashid’s older brother, Saleem, 25, who was …
Read More »Explained: Uttar Pradesh’s ‘love jihad’ law and why it could be vigorously enforced
Written by Maulshree Seth | Lucknow | Updated: November 25, 2020 6:52:45 pm In recent months, cases of alleged “love jihad” have been reported in different parts of the state, especially in eastern and central UP. As the The Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved a draft ordinance against interreligious conversions by …
Read More »UP approves the law of ‘love jihad’: 10 years in prison, canceling the marriage if it is for conversion
Written by Maulshree Seth | Lucknow | Updated: November 25, 2020 8:23:19 am The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Aditynath. (Archive) UTTAR Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday authorized a draft ordinance to control “illegal religious conversions” and “interreligious marriages with the sole intention of changing a girl’s religion”, with a …
Read More »‘Love Jihad’: UP Government Passes Ordinance Against Illegal Conversions; third state to do it
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: November 24, 2020 7:48:56 pm Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Aditynath. (Archive) The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday approved the draft of a strict law to control illegal conversions, which BJP leaders refer to as “love jihad”, in the state. The …
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