{"id":1970,"date":"2002-05-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/10\/2002-05-10-india-court-throws-out-prosecution-over-inter-caste-elopement\/"},"modified":"2002-05-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-10T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-10-india-court-throws-out-prosecution-over-inter-caste-elopement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/10\/2002-05-10-india-court-throws-out-prosecution-over-inter-caste-elopement\/","title":{"rendered":"India Court Throws Out Prosecution Over Inter-Caste Elopement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_1977000\/1977865.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, May 9, 2002: An Indian court has urged state authorities to prevent the persecution of couples from different communities. The Allahabad High Court dismissed a private prosecution for kidnapping brought by a father against the young man his daughter had eloped with. The young couple &#8212; from different communities within India&#8217;s caste system &#8212; told the court that their parents had threatened to kill them if they did not seek a divorce. Describing the caste system as a great evil that was hindering the country&#8217;s progress, the court said parents could not legally stop a person who was an adult from marrying someone from another caste or community. Indian law recognizes inter-caste marriages, but certain communities, especially in rural areas, considers them to be contrary to tradition.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ALLAHABAD, INDIA, May 9, 2002: An Indian court has urged state authorities to prevent the persecution of,&#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-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}