Tag: Anti-Conversion law

Since its enactment, this weaponised law, under challenge in the Supreme Court, has resulted in a series of incidents of wrongful arrests and confinement even while section 4, that stipulates only someone directly affected is a complainant, is routinely violated

Lessons on KB Hedgewar and Savarkar to be removed from textbooks, Poem on Ambedkar re-inserted

Notice was issued on CJP’s earlier petition challenging anti-conversion laws of UP and Uttarakhand, MP & HP in January 2021

The apex court had issued notice when CJP had challenged the anti-conversion laws of UP, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in 2021

Since two ordinances became laws after the plea was filed, the bench sought to clarify some facts, will hear the matter in two weeks

The High Court has barred the state government from using coercion against anyone who fails to intimate the DM before conversion

A two-judge bench of CJI Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha is scheduled to hear PILs filed by advocate Vishal Thakre and 'Citizens for Justice and Peace', a civil rights group

While UP Police continues to investigate the case of a church in Fatehpur accused of alleged ‘forceful conversions’, an on ground report shows a different side to the story.

Even with central “anti-conversion law”, figures show up the claim for “forced religious conversions” for what it is, an exaggeration

Maximum punishment for forced conversion increased, mass conversion introduced as an offence