MEERUT / BIJNOR: A Muslim teenager has been incarcerated in Bijnor jail for 10 days after walking Hindu girl at home in a town in Bijnor one night after attending a friend’s birthday party. It appears to have started with an accusation of “theft” that, at some point, turned into …
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Ahead of the three-day Assembly session beginning on December 28, the Madhya Pradesh cabinet approved the draft of Deputy Freedom of Religion Bill, 2020 at a special meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday. Under the proposed law, forcing someone to convert their religion will carry up …
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LUCK: At full steam, Uttar Pradesh police have made more than one arrest a day since the controversial anti-conversion ordinance went into effect a month ago, having detained about 35 people so far. Almost a dozen FIR have been introduced since the Illegal Conversion of Religion Prohibition Ordinance, 2020, was …
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Guarantee alimony or maintenance for women forced to marry for the purpose of religious conversion and a provision to declare such marriages null and void are some of the clauses that will be part Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2020, which will be discussed in a special Cabinet session …
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While the BJP government in Himachal Pradesh came into force a law last week requiring a person to give prior notice to authorities for converting to another religion and prohibiting conversions solely by marriage, in 2012 the state Superior Court struck down similar provisions in an earlier version presented by …
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A Muslim teenager from Uttar Pradesh was arrested under the new anti-conversion law targeting interfaith marriages after he was found walking with a Dalit Hindu girl in the Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh. The Indian Express reported on Friday. The incident took place on the night of December 14. The …
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Days after her friend, whom she was walking home with after a birthday party in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, was hired with the one-month-old baby. anti-conversion law and charged with charges under the sections of the SC / ST Act, and the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO), …
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As 2020 unfolds, two things can be said with certainty about India. One, the state and almost all of its institutions have made it clear that Muslims would be treated as subjects and not as citizens with the same rights as Hindus. Second, there is a growing understanding among Muslims …
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Written by Sofi Ahsan | New Delhi | Updated: December 21, 2020 7:34:35 am While declining the couple’s statement, Judge Anu Malhotra said Wednesday that the sentences “are in the realm of speculation” and “currently no such orders can be granted in relation to them.” “We could not have gotten …
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BAREILLY: The 21-year-old Muslim man from Kanth in Moradabad who had been arrested on charges of “forcibly converting” a 22-year-old woman was released from jail along with his older brother on Saturday. Police had filed a report in court on Friday, saying there was no evidence of the charges brought …
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