Allahabad High Court has said that conversion to marriage only is not valid.

The Allahabad High Court has said that conversion to marriage only is not valid. Dismissing the plea of ​​the couple of opposite religion, the court has allowed the petitioners to appear before the concerned magistrate and record their statement. The petitioner had demanded the High Court to ban the family members from interfering in their peaceful marital life. The court has refused to intervene on this petition. This order has been given by Justice MC Tripathi on the petition of Priyanshi alias Samreen and others.

The court has said that one of the petitioners is a Muslim and the other is a Hindu. The girl accepted Hinduism on 29 June 2020 and got married a month later on 31 July. The court said that it is clear from the record that conversion has been done to get married. The court cited the decision of the Nur Jahan Begum case in which the court said that it is not acceptable to change religion for marriage. In this case, the Hindu girl changed her religion and married a Muslim boy.

In Noor Jahan Begum's case, the Allahabad High Court dismissed the plea seeking protection for the married couple because the girl was a Hindu in this case and she married after converting to Islam. In that case, the court asked, "Is it lawful for a Hindu girl to convert only for the purpose of marriage at the behest of a Muslim boy without knowledge of Islam or faith and belief in it?" The court had answered no at that time.

On this, the court, citing the 2014 Nur Jahan case, said that changing the religion for mere marriage is not acceptable.