A Muslim body moved the Supreme Court Wednesday seeking it be made a party in the batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of controversial new laws of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand regulating religious conversions in inter-faith marriages.
The top court earlier in the day, issued notice to the two states, while agreeing to examine the validity of their laws.
Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind in its application said that similar legislations are also being enacted or planned by various other states which also need to be declared unconstitutional.
It has said that the ordinance passed by the Uttar Pradesh government was promulgated in the backdrop of statements issued by the Chief
Minister claiming that his government was working to bring a strict law to curb incidents of “love jihad”.
“That as is evident by the statements made by the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the impugned ordinance was promulgated to curb incidents of “love jihad” which is a terminology used to describe inter-religious marriages, which they allege involves the conversion
of the woman - either by force or guile - to marry a Muslim man”, it said.
