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Highlights Lucknow bench issued the notice against UP Additional Secretary Awanish Awasthi A bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary issued the notice on a petition filed by S K Pandey The court was of the view that prima facie its order has been flouted Lucknow: A contempt notice has been issued against Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi by the Allahabad High Court s Lucknow bench in a service-related matter, seeking his response by July 15. The petitioner had said that the court on March 23 this year directed the Additional Chief Secretary to decide his representation on the declaration of result of a Departmental Promotion Committee within six weeks but the order has not been complied with. ....
Interfaith couple’s ‘marriage’ put on hold endlessly By IANS| Updated: 1st March 2021 2:13 pm IST Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): Four months ago, a 27-year-old Muslim man had allegedly ‘eloped’ with a girl from another faith to get married, which had created a lot of sensation. The man was later caught and jailed for over a month. The couple has since been waiting for permission from the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) to get ‘legally’ get married but has been asked to wait for another month. The couple has an Allahabad high court order, giving them freedom to get married and an exemption from notice period under special circumstances by the marriage officer. ....
Making public notices optional under Special Marriage Act is a relief for inter-faith couples The Allahabad High Court ruling that people marrying under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, can choose not to publicise their union with a notice 30 days in advance may not exactly be a judicial pushback against problematic anti-conversion laws enacted by several BJP-ruled States. But it serves to get a major irritant out of the way of couples wanting to marry against the wishes of their parents or their immediate community. Many intercaste and inter-faith marriages have faced violent opposition from those acting in the name of community pride or those raising the bogey of ‘love jihad’. Hindutva activists have been targeting Muslim men marrying Hindu women, especially if the women have converted to Islam prior to the marriage. The court said that mandatorily publishing a notice of the intended marriage and calling for objections violates the right to privacy. According to the new ....
Notice period for inter-faith marriage now optional By IANS | Published on Thu, Jan 14 2021 7:03 IST | 0 Views Allahabad High Court - Lucknow bench. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News Lucknow, Jan 14 : In a landmark judgment, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that the 30 days notice to a marriage officer to register a wedding under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, should be optional rather than mandatory. The court said that enforcing a notice period on the couple is tantamount to intruding on their fundamental right to privacy and liberty. If the couple does not want to go for publication of the 30-day notice, the marriage officer has to solemnise their wedding forthwith, said Justice Vivek Chaudhary while disposing of a habeas corpus petition filed by a Hindu man married to a woman who was born Muslim but converted before the wedding. ....