Gwalior (MP): The Gwalior Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that religious institutions cannot convert a person on their own and an application has to be submitted to the concerned District Collector. The court passed the judgment while hearing a plea over the alleged conversion of a Muslim woman at an Arya Samaj temple in Ghaziabad to marry her Hindu boyfriend.
The court has declared the marriage of Rahul and Hina to be void. The High Court said that no religious institution has the right to convert a young man or a woman to another religion. This can be done only after duly applying to the collector, it said. The High Court has directed that the woman currently living in Nari Niketan should be freed within a week.