Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sept 23: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Center and others in response to a petition asking for guidance on how to take strict action to prevent fake religious conversions using ‘intimidation’ and ‘gifts and financial rewards.’
Notices were sent to the Union of India, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Ministry of Law and Justice by a bench of Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari.
The highest court ordered the parties to respond by November 14th.
Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, an attorney, had petitioned the Supreme Court, asking for a directive to the Center and states to take strict action to prevent fraudulent religious conversion by “intimidation, threatening, deceivingly seducing through gifts and financial incentives.”
“The injury caused to the citizens is extremely large because there is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by ‘hook and crook’,” the plea submitted.
The petition further requests that the Law Commission of India be directed to prepare a report and a bill to prevent religious conversion by coercion and financial gain.
