By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: November 28, 2020 1:30:17 pm Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel passed an ordinance against forced or “dishonest” religious conversions on Saturday. (Express file photo Javed Raja) Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Saturday gave his consent to an ordinance enacted by …
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 »Allahabad HC says previous orders on interfaith marriages are not ‘good law’
By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Updated: November 25, 2020 2:45:07 am The Allahabad High Court said that ignoring the choice of one person, who is an adult, “will not only be antithetical to the freedom of choice of an adult individual, but would also threaten the concept of …
Read More »UP Cabinet Approves Ordinance To Control “Illegal” Religious Conversions | India News
LUCKNOW: Giving legal force to your promise to crack down on forced conversions amid a spiraling dispute over “love jihad,” Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his cabinet approved the UP ordinance on Tuesday Prohibiting Illegal Religious Conversion. The law makes forced religious conversion punishable in the state with …
Read More »UP Cabinet approves ordinance against marriage conversions | India News
LUCK: The Uttar Pradesh The government approved Tuesday a drought ordinance to address religious conversion for the sake of marriage, which could land offenders in jail for up to 10 years. An official spokesman said the state cabinet gave its go-ahead to the ordinance at its meeting chaired here by …
Read More »UP Cabinet Approves Ordinance on ‘Love Jihad’
Siddharth Nath Singh also gave some details of the ordinance to ANI, saying: “The ordinance provides for a prison term of 1 to 5 years with a penalty of 15,000 rupees for forced religious conversion. For the conversions of minors and women from the SC / SC community, there will …
Read More »No conspiracy, foreign funding in interfaith marriages, say Kanpur cops
Kanpur Police Say They Have Found No Evidence Of Conspiracy (Representational) Kanpur / New Delhi: Eleven of the 14 interfaith marriages in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, involved criminality, but there is no evidence of conspiracy or foreign funding, Kanpur police said, contradicting claims about the so-called “jihad of love.” Over the …
Read More »UP Police Report Contradicts Adityanath’s Claim Of ‘Rise in Love Jihad’
Lucknow: Contrary to the polarizing campaign carried out in the name of ‘love jihad’ by the Uttar Pradesh government and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a ‘special investigation’ launched by the UP Police into the allegations of attraction and forced conversion of women Hindus has turned out to be a wet …
Read More »Hathras, Accused of Gang Rape, Taken to Gujarat for Lie Detector Test and Brain Mapping
The four defendants in the Hathras gang rape and murder case were brought to Gandhi Nagar in Gujarat for a polygraph test and brain mapping. Earlier on Saturday, they were released from Aligarh jail and taken by the CBI team, escorted by the Hathras police, for their trip to Gandhi …
Read More »Denoting Vindhya Totally Neglected PM Launches Rs 5555 Rural Drinking Water Project | India News
VARANASI: Launch of ambitious Rs 5,555.38 crore rural drinking water projects under the Jal Jeevan Mission for the Vindhya Prime region Modi Narendra Modi He said, “Despite having a vast network of rivers and being full of minerals, Vindhya and Bundelkhand region it remained neglected after independence. ” After laying …
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