UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS-DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 18 2017
CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS Choice & conversion News: SC verdict on Akhila/Haldiya case Behind news: Entrusted with adjudicating whether her conversion to Islam and marriage to a Muslim man were voluntary acts, the Supreme Court has embarked on a roving inquiry into whether Hindu women in parts of Kerala are being radicalised. Inexplicably, the court has sought inputs from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), tasked with tackling terrorism, to probe the circumstances of the 24-year-old’s conversion and marriage even before it heard her out. Kerala HC v/s SC The question before the court was the correctness of the Kerala High Court’s decision to annul her marriage. The High Court did not question her conversion to Islam, only suspecting the veracity of her sudden claim that she…




