The Allahabad High Court has ruled that if a religious conversion is found to be illegal, any marriage solemnised on the basis of such conversion will be invalid in the eyes of law. The court emphasised that marriage under personal law requires both parties to belong to the same religion, and where conversion itself is forged or unlawful, such a union cannot stand.

Justice Saurabh Srivastava delivered the order while hearing a writ petition filed by Mohammad Bin Qasim alias Akbar and Jainab Parveen alias Chandrakanta. The couple had sought protection of their marital life.

The petitioner’s counsel argued that Qasim, a Muslim, had married Chandrakanta, a Hindu woman who had converted to Islam on February 22, 2025, through a certificate issued by Khanqahe Alia Arifia. They were married as

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