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Multiple FIRs filed under the Uttar Pradesh
Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion
of Religion Act, quashed by the 2-
Judge Bench of the Supreme Court had
quoted that the right to privacy and
right to freedom of conscience and free
profession, practice and propagation of
religion under Art 25 of the Constitution
are interlinked and had to be examined.
The Bench also drew a similarity on how
choosing one’s partner is a legitimate
constitutional right in which the consent
of family or community or clan is not
necessary once two adults agree to enter
into wedlock. Referring to another SC
verdict, the Bench said, ‘ it held that the
right to marry a person of one’s choice is
integral to to Art 21 of the Constitution is
an expression of one’s right to life’.
‘ … an individual’s autonomy is supreme
in choices of faith and belief which are
intrinsic in matters of marriage. The
court prohibited the State as well as law
from controlling the choice of choosing
a partner or even limiting or regulating
the ability to decide on such matters’, the
Bench said.
