One day later Madhya Pradesh Government Passed Ordinance Against Forced Religious ConversionsDefense Minister Rajnath Singh said Wednesday that the practice of mass conversions must stop and that he does not approve of conversion for marriage. In an interview with the news agency AND MESingh said: “I want to ask why …
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Madhya Pradesh’s Cabinet on Saturday passed a bill to regulate interfaith marriages in the state that provides for a 10-year jail to ‘force’ women, minors, and people from scheduled castes and tribes to undergo religious conversion, while exempting the conversion to religion of the parents of its scope. The proposed …
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Forcing religious conversion will attract 1 to 5 years in prison, says MP Narottam Mishra’s interior minister. The Madhya Pradesh cabinet today approved by oral vote a bill aimed at curbing forced religious conversions. If signed into law, it will include a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in …
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Bijnor: boy is in prison after being accused of trying to convert a Hindu girl by force Bijnor: Two teenagers walking home from a friend’s birthday party in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a …
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New Delhi: A private laboratory in Bijnor has confirmed that the 22-year-old woman, who was sent to a foster home in accordance with a report from a Bajrang Dal unit to Uttar Pradesh police about an alleged case of ‘love jihad’ punished by the anti-conversion ordinance recently enacted in the …
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The court said the police cannot take any enforcement action against the defendants for now. Lucknow: A 32-year-old Muslim, one of the first to be charged under Uttar Pradesh’s controversial anti-conversion law, cannot yet be arrested, the Allahabad High Court ruled, entering the spiraling debate over “Love Jihad.” Nadeem and …
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LUCK: Eight First Information Reports (FIRs) have been filed in less than 20 days under the new Uttar Pradesh Illegal Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, promulgated by Governor Anandiben Patel on November 28, 2020. Here’s a case-by-case account of the FIRs: Case No. 1Location: BareillyDate: November 29, 2020The FIR was …
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A man has been arrested under the anti-conversion law in Bijnor, (Representation) Bijnor: A man was arrested under the anti-conversion law in Bijnor, police said Wednesday. Police officer Sanjay Kumar said the defendant, Saqib, abducted a girl and forced her to convert her religion. “A girl from Dhampur was missing …
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New Delhi: Pinki, a woman who was forced to go to a foster home because she was in an interfaith marriage and whose husband was arrested by the police, has said in court that she is an adult, married of her own free will and wanted to return to the …
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Kushinagar police arrested the marriage of a 39-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, both Muslim. Lucknow: Two days after a wedding ceremony was stopped and a couple from Kushinagar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, were taken to a police station for “questioning”, UP police have said they were not breaking the law …
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