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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Supreme Court on Monday sought to know the status of cases pending before different high courts challenging controversial state laws regulating religious conversion due to interfaith marriages, and said if all cases are similar in nature it may transfer them all to itself. India News | SC Seeks Status of Pending Cases Before HCs Against State Laws Regulating Conversion Through Marriages.

A bench of CJI Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha is scheduled to hear PILs filed by advocate Vishal Thakre and an NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace

The Supreme Court will also hear a plea by Muslim body 'Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind' which it had allowed last year to become a party to the petitions as it claimed a large number of Muslims are being harassed under these laws across the country.

The apex court had on January 6, 2021 agreed to examine certain controversial new laws of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand regulating religious conversions due to such marriages.

Muslim Body Moves SC, Seeks to Be Party in Pleas Against State Laws on Religious Conversion FOLLOW US ON: A Muslim body moved the Supreme Court on 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-...