The law “interferes with the intricacies of marriage including the right to choice of an individual,” observed the Gujarat High Court, in its order staying certain sections of the state's anti-conversion law.
The Gujarat High Court had on Thursday, 19 August stayed the sections and said that certain provisions of the act will not be applicable to interfaith marriages till there is something to show there is force, allurement or fraud involved.
The order passed by Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Biren Vaishnav further observed that the provisions of the said “love jihad” law, put consenting parties entering validly into inter-faith marriage “in great jeopardy”.
“Section 6A of the 2003 Act places the burden of proof on the parties entering into an inter-faith marriage to prove that the marriage was not solemnized on account of any fraud, allurement or coercion.”Gujarat High Court