Inter-caste Marriage

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear on February 3 a batch of pleas challenging controversial state laws regulating religious conversions due to interfaith marriages. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala noted that a transfer plea was mentioned in the morning. "We can list it, issue notice and hear it together. The transfer petition will also be numbered by then. The attorney general can also examine. We will hear all on Friday," the bench said. During the brief hearing, senior advocate CU Singh, appearing in the court on behalf of NGO "Citizens for Justice and Peace" of activist Teesta Setalwad, submitted that people cannot get married due to these state laws and the situation is very grave. Attorney General R Venkataramani submitted that these are state legislations that have been challenged before the apex court and the high courts concerned should hear the cases. The top court had earlier asked the parties challen

The Supreme Court has said while noting that the educated younger boys and girls are nowadays choosing their life partners which is a departure from earlier societal norms.

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The better educated the groom's mother, the higher the chances of an inter-caste marriage