In a significant habeas corpus judgment, the Allahabad High Court has drawn a constitutional boundary between the State’s power to investigate an alleged unlawful religious conversion and the individual’s right to personal liberty. Justice Sandeep Jain held that two adult women could not be confined by their father merely because they had chosen to embrace a faith different from that of their family, even while an investigation into the alleged …
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