{"id":13932,"date":"2014-12-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/12\/23\/allahabad-high-court-conversion-to-islam-solely-for-marriage-not-valid\/"},"modified":"2014-12-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T12:00:00","slug":"allahabad-high-court-conversion-to-islam-solely-for-marriage-not-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/12\/23\/allahabad-high-court-conversion-to-islam-solely-for-marriage-not-valid\/","title":{"rendered":"Allahabad High Court: Conversion to Islam solely for Marriage not Valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/nation\/conversion-to-islam-solely-for-marriage-not-valid-hc.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, December 20, 2014 (Daily Pioneer): In a significant judgement, the Allahabad High Court has ruled that the religious conversion of girls &#8220;without their faith and belief in Islam&#8221; and &#8220;solely for the purpose of marriage&#8221; to Muslim boys could not be held valid.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani passed the order while dismissing a batch of petitions filed by five couples, hailing from different districts of Uttar Pradesh, who had sought &#8220;protection as married couple.&#8221; In each case, the boys were Muslim while the girls were Hindu who got converted to Islam for solemnizing nikah.<\/p>\n<p>In his order earlier this week, justice Kesarwani quoted a Supreme Court order of 2000 wherein it was laid down that &#8220;conversion of religion of a non-Muslim without any real change of belief in Islam and only for the purpose of marriage is void.&#8221;     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, December 20, 2014 (Daily Pioneer): In a significant judgement, the Allahabad High Court has ruled that the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}