Anti-Conversion Law: MP Government Will Move Supreme Court Against Interim Relief From Action Given To Interfaith Couples

Indicative picture – Photo: Social Media Expansion The Madhya Pradesh government is going to challenge in the Supreme Court the High Court’s interim order to stop prosecution of inter-faith couples who marry without informing the District Magistrate. The High Court, in an interim order, directed the state government to invoke the MP Freedom of Religion Act (MPFRA) section directed not to prosecute adults who marry of their own free will. A division bench of Justices Sujoy Paul and PC Gupta 10 said on November that section , which makes it mandatory for a citizen intending to convert to give a (prior) declaration to the District Magistrate. retrospectively as unconstitutional as the aforesaid decisions of this Court. Advocate General Prashant Singh told PTI on Sunday, the state government will approach the highest court to challenge the interim order of the High Court. is going to approach the court, which will prosecute it under the MPFRA adults section prevents those who marry of their own free will. MPFRA prohibits conversion through misrepresentation, inducement, use of threat of force, undue influence, coercion, marriage or any other fraud. Singh said, we are going to file a petition in the Hon’ble Supreme Court soon. The High Court’s interim direction came on a batch of seven petitions challenging the provisions of the MPFRA, 2021. The petitioners sought interim relief restraining the State from prosecuting anyone under the Act. The court had given three weeks time to the state government to file its para-wise reply on the petitions and said that the petitioners may thereafter 21 days to file rejoinder. ,