‘Wholly illegal’: Allahabad HC orders release of two Agra sisters ‘confined’ in home by father for embracing Islam

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Then their father got a police case registered, alleging abduction for forced marriage. While the accused have been lodged in jail since, police had handed over the two women to their father, said their lawyer Ali Bin Saif. Their counsel, Ali Bin Saif, told the Indian Express, their father came to know about their conversion to Islam in 2021 and forcibly confined the two in house until they escaped last year. The petitioner’s counsel submitted that the apprehension about the alleged impact of the conversion upon the sovereignty, integrity and unity of the nation is wholly speculative and “unsupported by any cogent material”. How can conversion of two adult women pose any threat to the sovereignty or integrity of the country, he questioned.