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#Breaking :Plea in Bombay HC against Maha GR to monitor inter-faith & inter-caste marriages.

"Assumption that adult women who choose and consent to marry someone from another faith need to be 'saved' is misplaced and goes against the spirit of the Constitution"
#BombayHighCourt

GR is the government's attempt to discourage and/or forbid inter-faith marriages and is essentially a pre-cursor to laws related to purported love jihad marriages which have stayed in numerous States of India.

#lovejihaad #interfaith

The petition by Samajwadi Party MLA @rais_shk states that the resolution is discriminatory against a particular religion and is violative of Articles 14 (right to equality), Article 15 (forbidding discrimination), 21 (right to life which includes the right to privacy), and 25.

“without d couple having any control on who has access to their private information (GR) is contributory to d ever ongoing campaign of d parents, vigilante groups & society to control the lives of young people who have decided to choose their own partners”
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