Conversion just to marry? Bombay HC questions practice as plea against Maharashtra’s anti-conversion law is withdrawn

NEW DELHI: A petition challenging the constitutional validity of Maharashtra’s anti-conversion law was withdrawn from the Bombay High Court on October 22 after the Bench questioned the absence of concrete facts showing how the legislation had adversely affected the petitioner. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Justice Advait M. Sethna was hearing a petition filed by Maulana Halimullah Farooque Ahemed Khan, a 70-year-old Islamic teacher from Bhiwandi in Thane d

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