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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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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FIR filed the father’s complaint that the defendant wanted to ‘coerce, persuade and seduce’ his daughter to convert. The Uttar Pradesh police have filed the first case under the new ordinance against illegal conversion a day after its enactment. Police filed an FIR in Bareilly under Sections 3 and 5 …
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The Uttar Pradesh government has banned “illegal religious conversions” with immediate effect when Governor Anandiben Patel enacted Uttar Pradesh’s Illegal Conversion of Religion Prohibition Ordinance on Saturday. The ordinance has stricter provisions to control religious conversions carried out through temptation, coercion, the use of force or fraudulent means and to …
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