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SC Constitution Bench To Decide On Parsi Woman’s Religious Identity After Inter-Religion Marriage

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Supreme Court of India

A petition is filed in the Supreme Court by Goolrakh Gupta a Parsi Zoroastrian woman, raising the legal issue whether she gets automatically converted to Hindu religion after her marriage to a Hindu man. She stated that there was no law in India which says that the wife must adopt her husbands religion. SC stated that it will decide the religious identity of Goolrakh under the Special Marriage Act.