1/n What happens when the State, in pursuit of a communal agenda, infringes a woman's right to bodily autonomy and her right to make her own choices. Thread.
2/n: Despite the Supreme Court of India categorically stating that society has no role to play in a major's choice of partner, this young couple has been forcibly restrained from marriage.
The state's dictatorial actions violate fundamental rights! https://scroll.in/video/980381/watch-young-woman-protests-after-man-she-meant-to-marry-is-arrested-under-interfaith-marriage-law
The state's dictatorial actions violate fundamental rights! https://scroll.in/video/980381/watch-young-woman-protests-after-man-she-meant-to-marry-is-arrested-under-interfaith-marriage-law
3/n: Legitimization of religious and militant moral police. "...the Bajrang Dal, accosted the trio at the marriage registration office and stopped them from going ahead with formalities, and then took all three to the local police station." https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/moradabad-up-woman-heckled-husband-arrested-over-anti-conversion-law-2334920
4/n: Communal laws become a means to harass already marginalized communities. These "love jihad" laws also disregard the consent of majors to their own choices in marriage and religion. https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/lucknow/story/up-anti-love-jihad-law-misuse-1747269-2020-12-07