Up Love Jihad Law

The Yogi Adityanth-led government has introduced the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in the Assembly, which proposes harsher punishment, leading up to life imprisonment in 'love jihad' cases.

Samajwadi Party leader Fakhrul Hasan Chand slammed the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over bringing amendments in existing law regarding 'Love Jihad' and said that the BJP only wants to do negative politics.

The BJP lined up several promises, including a legislation to protect traditions of the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala and law against "Love Jihad", while assuring employment for at least one person from each family and free laptops to high school students, in its manifesto for the assembly polls unveiled here on Wednesday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed the Left front government in Kerala for not taking any constructive steps to stop religious conversion by marriage, which he called "love jihad", in the state.

The legal validity of the laws against unlawful conversions in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be examined by the Supreme Court, which issued notice to the two state governments and the Centre today.

Two teenagers walking home from a friend's birthday party in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of "love jihad" under a controversial new anti-conversion law.

Two people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district in separate cases under the state's new anti-conversion law, police said on Monday.

Two men, arrested under UP's anti-conversion law, freed. Cops couldn't produce evidence, say sources

A 32-year-old Muslim man, one of the first to be charged under Uttar Pradesh's controversial anti-conversion law, cannot be arrested yet, the Allahabad High Court has ruled, stepping into the spiralling debate over "Love Jihad".

Four former judges have criticised the new anti-conversion ordinance of Uttar Pradesh, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", calling it unconstitutional, against fundamental rights, and one of the strangest laws, with one even terming "love jihad" a "creation of religious extremists for the purpose of dividing people."

Uttar Pradesh's new anti-conversion ordinance, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", reflects the philosophy of a khap panchayat, with the objective essentially being to subjugate women, former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah has said. The retired judge told NDTV that several of its provisions violate the fundamental right to practice reli...

An NDTV investigation into the case of a young Hindu woman heckled inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva activists because she had married a Muslim man has found multiple weak links in the case and actions against the couple.

A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district's Kanth area.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has made its first arrest under the new anti-conversion law, days after a man complained that someone is harassing his daughter in a bid to change her religion, officials said on Thursday.

BSP President Mayawati on Monday asked Uttar Pradesh's BJP government reconsider its new anti-religious conversion ordinance ostensibly aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad". The ordinance became applicable in the state last Saturday and a case has already been filed under the new law.

The Yogi Adityanth-led government has introduced the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in the Assembly, which proposes harsher punishment, leading up to life imprisonment in 'love jihad' cases.

Samajwadi Party leader Fakhrul Hasan Chand slammed the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over bringing amendments in existing law regarding 'Love Jihad' and said that the BJP only wants to do negative politics.

The BJP lined up several promises, including a legislation to protect traditions of the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala and law against "Love Jihad", while assuring employment for at least one person from each family and free laptops to high school students, in its manifesto for the assembly polls unveiled here on Wednesday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed the Left front government in Kerala for not taking any constructive steps to stop religious conversion by marriage, which he called "love jihad", in the state.

The legal validity of the laws against unlawful conversions in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be examined by the Supreme Court, which issued notice to the two state governments and the Centre today.

Two teenagers walking home from a friend's birthday party in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of "love jihad" under a controversial new anti-conversion law.

Two people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district in separate cases under the state's new anti-conversion law, police said on Monday.

Two men, arrested under UP's anti-conversion law, freed. Cops couldn't produce evidence, say sources

A 32-year-old Muslim man, one of the first to be charged under Uttar Pradesh's controversial anti-conversion law, cannot be arrested yet, the Allahabad High Court has ruled, stepping into the spiralling debate over "Love Jihad".

Four former judges have criticised the new anti-conversion ordinance of Uttar Pradesh, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", calling it unconstitutional, against fundamental rights, and one of the strangest laws, with one even terming "love jihad" a "creation of religious extremists for the purpose of dividing people."

Uttar Pradesh's new anti-conversion ordinance, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", reflects the philosophy of a khap panchayat, with the objective essentially being to subjugate women, former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah has said. The retired judge told NDTV that several of its provisions violate the fundamental right to practice reli...

An NDTV investigation into the case of a young Hindu woman heckled inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva activists because she had married a Muslim man has found multiple weak links in the case and actions against the couple.

A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district's Kanth area.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has made its first arrest under the new anti-conversion law, days after a man complained that someone is harassing his daughter in a bid to change her religion, officials said on Thursday.

BSP President Mayawati on Monday asked Uttar Pradesh's BJP government reconsider its new anti-religious conversion ordinance ostensibly aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad". The ordinance became applicable in the state last Saturday and a case has already been filed under the new law.