The Supreme Court has said that the law does not sanction the concept of a woman's religion getting merged with her husband's faith after an inter-religion marriage. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was yesterday dealing a legal question whether a Parsi woman loses her religious identity, if she marries a man from a different religion. <br/><br/>The bench asked senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, representing the 'Valsad Parsi Trust', to take instruction and apprise it on December 14, the next date for hearing in this regard. It asked whether whether Goolrokh M Gupta, a Parsi woman, who had married a Hindu will be allowed to attend the last rites of her parents. Gupta has challenged the customary law, upheld by the Gujarat High Court in 2010, that a Parsi woman marrying a Hindu loses her religious rights in the Parsi community. <br/><br/>The bench said, there is no law which says that a woman loses religious identity after marrying a man from another faith. It also said the Special Marriage Act is there and allows that two persons can marry and maintain their respective religious identities.The bench said it was only the woman who can decide about her religious identity by exercising her right to choice.