The Calcutta High Court on Monday ruled that there can be no interference with an interfaith marriage if a woman entered the alliance with...
The Calcutta High Court on Monday ruled that there can be no interference with an interfaith marriage if a woman entered the alliance with consent and decided to change her religion, reported Live Law.
A bench of Justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee made the observations while hearing a plea filed by the father of a 19-year-old Hindu woman, who converted to Islam after marrying a Muslim man.
The woman, identified as Pallabi Sarkar, had married Asmaul Shaikh, according to a report filed at the Murutia Police Station on December 7. The report also contained a copy of a statement made by Sarkar on September 16 before a judicial magistrate in Tehatta in Nadia district, stating that she married Shaikh out of her choice and was willingly living with him.
But the father in his plea claimed that his daughter was forced to make a false statement against her wishes. He alleged that he visited the court of the magistrate on the day when Sarkar recorded her statements, but was not allowed to meet his daughter or talk to her.
The father submitted in the High Court that he feared that the woman might not feel free to testify. He pleaded that before she meets the judge, his apprehensions should...
