Prayagraj, Aug. 2 -- As long as women voluntarily convert to Islam and marry based on their choice of person, no individual, including the father, can interfere in that decision, stated the Allahabad High Court.

The court made the observation on July 30, while hearing a petition from two sisters, aged 20 and 35. Represented by their counsel, the sisters said that their conversion from Hinduism to Islam was voluntary and that they chose to marry of their own free will, arguing that it was their fundamental right.

Justice Sandeep Jain then ordered the Uttar Pradesh Police and the father to produce the two sisters, Anshu Bhatia alias Amina Anshu Bhatia (35) and Divya Bhatia alias Zoya Diya Bhatia (20), before the court on August 6. The sis...