Adult’s right to marry a person of choice is fundamental right

An Adult individual’s right to marry a person of his or her choice is a fundamental right that cannot be denied on the basis of caste or religion by anybody, according to an observation made by a division bench of the Karnataka High Court last week.

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The ruling came even as the Karnataka government followed other BJP-ruled states in claiming the need for a special law to stop inter-religious marriages, especially those involving women from majority communities with men from minority communities.

A division bench of the Allahabad High Court recently ruled in the case of a Muslim-Hindu couple Salamat Ansari and Priyanka Khanwar alias Alia that the “right to live with a person of his/her choice irrespective of religion professed by them, is intrinsic to right to life and personal liberty”.