Context: Many recent state ‘laws’ on the slaughter of cattle, marriage, and religious conversions may incite communalism and destroy the long-standing fraternity in everyday lives that have long defined India.
Efforts to promote inter-faith and inter-caste marriages: Historical background -
Issues with laws of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh on Inter-faith marriages:
Conclusion: It is for the court to Suo Motu strike these laws down in order to preserve the basic structure of the constitutional edifice.
Anecdote: Price paid by society for writing hate into law -