anti conversion law

All offences under the proposed law will be cognisable and non-bailable.

The proposed legislation comes in the wake of repeated incidents of forced or induced religious conversions in the state.

Those demanding implementation of the anti-conversion law in Arunachal Pradesh assert that the law is not against any religion, rather, it only protects “tribal communities from conversion through allurement or inducement”.

S Muralidhar also objected to the fact that people other than the victim of forced conversion can also file complaints. He alleged that this provision in anti-conversion laws is giving way to vigilante groups.

The Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act was enacted in 1978 to protect indigenous communities in the northeastern state from unethical and deceitful conversion by predatory evangelist groups.

Azamgarh Police halted a mass conversion event in Miria Redha, seizing objectionable materials and detaining a suspect accused of coercing Hindus into Christianity.

Hina, a Pilibhit resident, filed a complaint with Bareilly police around a month and a half after their marriage, alleging Pandit Shankhdhar of forcing her to embrace Hinduism. Hina has also accused her husband, Prem Shankar Gupta, and her brother-in-law of tricking her into marriage.

The court ruled that registration of a religious conversion is essential not just for marriage purposes, but also for marriage-like relationships.

The Chhattisgarh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Bill has various provisions to prohibit fraudulent religious conversions.