Updated On: 20 December, 2020 12:00 PM IST | Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) | mid-day online correspondent
The HC bench told the police to not take any coercive action against the accused, Nadeem, challenging the constitutional validity of the ordinance

A woman at a demonstration to protest proposed laws against Love Jihad in Bangalore earlier in December. Pic/AFP File
Amid the on-going controversies surrounding the 'Love- Jihad' law, the Allahabad high court on Friday stayed the arrest of a man, who was booked under the recently promulgated Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 for allegedly trying to marry a woman with the intention to convert her to his religion.