The Allahabad High Court has directed the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district not to take action against an inter-faith couple on th...
The Allahabad High Court has directed the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district not to take action against an inter-faith couple on the basis of a first information report filed against the husband in 2017, Live Law reported on Thursday. The couple alleged that they were being harassed by the police since the implementation of the anti-conversion law in the state.
The police had filed the FIR against the man under Sections 363 (kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage) of the Indian Penal Code.
The couple told the High Court’s Lucknow bench that they got married three years ago and have a one-and-a half-year-old child.
A bench comprising Justices Ritu Raj Awasthi and Saroj Yadav directed the police not to take any coercive action against them till the next date of hearing in the case. The bench gave the state government a week’s time to file its response.
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