Topic: UP

Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav took a dig at Yogi Adityanath government and said it has been exposed in the Hathras rape-murder case and it will also face the same treatment in the false cases against SP leader and parliamentarian Azam Khan.

The Allahabad High Court on Friday ordered that no coercive measures should be taken against a Muslim youth who was booked under UP's recent draconian 'love jihad law' -the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 (Ordinance)- which regulates religious conversion.

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday cleared the controversial 'love jihad' ordinance, with the Anti-religious Conversion Bill, 2020, adopted by the state government.

In A big blow to Yogi Adityanath government's proposed law against Love Jihad "Anti- Conversion Law" Allahabad High Court held that the judgement which held 'Religious conversion just for the purpose of marriage is unacceptable' is not good law, Live Law reported on Monday.

Newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Bahujan Samaj Party chief Bhim Rajbhar on Monday claimed that BSP chief Mayawati will become the chief minister of the state after winning the 2022 Assembly polls.

Supreme Court issues notice to the Uttar Pradesh government in the habeas petition filed against the arrest and custody of Siddiqque Kappan Siddiqque Kappan, who is under custody under draconian UAPA charges since his arrest on 5 October by the Uttar Pradesh police while he was on his way to report the Hathras rape case.