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LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court on Friday stayed the arrest of a person named Nadeem who was booked under the newly-promulgated UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Ordinance-2020, in Muzaffarnagar on November 30.
The ordinance was promulgated on November 28, 2020.
A division bench, comprising Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal, asked the UP Police not to take any coercive action against the accused. The bench also tagged the case to another division bench, comprising Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Piyush Agarwal, which is seized of the matter in
response to a PIL challenging the vires of the ordinance.
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court on Friday stayed the arrest of a man booked by UP Police under the recently promulgated Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, for allegedly trying to marry a woman with intentions of converting to her to other faith.
This is the first time that an affected party has approached the High Court against this ordinance.
Hearing a writ petition filed by one Nadeem from Haridwar, who was booked by UP Police, a division bench comprising Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal directed the state police not to take any coercive action against the accused, Nadeem who was booked by UP Police on November 29 on a complaint filed by one Akshay Kumar of Muzaffarnagar.
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A writ petition has been filed before the Allahabad High Court challenging the constitutional validity of the UP Government s controversial Ordinance against religious conversions in the name of love jihad .
He has urged the Court to declare this law as
ultra vires the Constitution and in the interim, direct the authorities not to take any coercive action in pursuance thereof.
On October 31, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, had made a statement that his government will bring a law against love-jihad , a term used to discredit marriages between Muslim men and Hindu women as part of a conspiracy to cause the conversion of Hindu women. During his public statement, the Chief Minister referred to a single bench judgment of the Allahabad High Court in the case