Allahabad High Court pulls up UP authorities for rejecting Muslim man’s conversion to Hinduism
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The Allahabad High Court recently pulled up an additional district magistrate (ADM) for rejecting an application moved by a Muslim man under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 for recognition of his conversion to Hinduism.The man, an assistant professor, said that he had performed the conversion at a temple in 2022 and later married a Hindu woman, a college lecturer. Their marriage was objected to by the woman’s father, who accused him of illegal conversio