The Allahabad High Court has held that religious
conversion of girls "without their
faith and belief in Islam" and "solely
for the purpose of marriage" to Muslim boys could not be held valid.
In reaching the said conclusion, the Allahabad High
Court refers to, and relies on a Supreme Court judgment wherein it was laid
down that "conversion of religion of
a non-Muslim without any real change of belief in Islam and only for the
purpose of marriage is void."
Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani passed
the judgment while dismissing a batch of petitions filed by five couples,
hailing from different districts of Uttar Pradesh, who had sought "protection as married couple".
In each of the cases, the boys were
Muslim while the girls were Hindus who got converted to Islam for the purposes
of "nikah" (marriage).
