The Father Who Jailed His Own Son to "Protect" Him
The Allahabad High Court's order in the Ayush Malik case has drawn attention because it addresses two overlapping concerns at once - the alleged misuse of a state anti-conversion law to criminalise a consensual interfaith relationship and the more unusual allegation that a family member, not the state, physically confined an adult citizen to prevent him from exercising that choice. The court's invocation of Articles 21 and…