Rajasthan government’s attempts at recognising the political salience of matters like religious conversion should receive appreciation but there is an increasing need towards reading their impact on the larger...
The shadows of alleged conversion bid that the police claimed to have busted in Hariharganj in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur on April 14, 2022 continues to hang over the district. While the police try to crack the...
Touching upon the topic of religious conversions, the UP CM said his state had a stringent law against such activities with offenders liable to be jailed for as long as 10 years.
Two years since the UP government brought in the anti-conversion law, most of the accused and arrested persons are Muslim men while in some cases even Christians and Buddhists, especially from the Dalit and OBC communities,...
Article 25 of the Constitution of India provides the freedom to practise, profess, and propagate religion, but does it also cover the right to proselytise and convert others?
Recently there has been a series of violent incidents in villages in the Narayanpur and Kondagoan districts related to issues of forced conversion and reconversion creating an environment of tension and mistrust.
The FIR was lodged on the basis of a complaint filed by the father of 22-year-old Rahul Sharma who was reported to have converted to Islam, said police.
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging anti-conversion laws of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling, the Madhya Pradesh government cannot prosecute interfaith couples who marry without informing the district magistrate to...
The police detained the Pastor and his wife over allegations of forced conversions but later released them, saying the matter had been amicably resolved.
Haryana: The woman's father, who filed the complaint, alleged that his daughter had recently married a Muslim man and was forcibly to converted to Islam.
Most of the anti-conversion Bills in different states impose enhanced penal measures for the conversion of SCs, STs, women and minors. Our debates on religious...
The bench headed by Justice MR Shah earlier expressed serious concern over the issue and sought the response of central government.
After going through all of them, we will decide. But the Union Home Minister (Amit Shah) or anyone else from the central government has not spoken to me in...
Karnataka is the fourth BJP-run state to call for the implementation of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) after Uttarakhand, Assam, and Gujarat.
The case of alleged forced religious conversion in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly comes weeks after nine people were booked in a similar case in Meerut.
It's alleged that a group of people initially distributed ration to poor people during Covid-19 lockdowns and then forced them to convert.
“What is the great hurry to bring an anti-conversion law via ordinance, avoiding debate in the assembly and the council?” asked the Congress president.
The bogey of ‘love jihad’ goes way back to Kanpur in 1924 when a Muslim administrator was accused of ‘seducing’ a Hindu girl and forcing her to convert.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra greeted party workers and leaders in Karnataka for the "spectacular performance" in the local body elections.
Calling the "Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021" popularly known as the anti-conversion Bill as "anti-constitution" and...
The MP has however not specified which statements he was referring to from his nearly one-and-half hour long speech.
Seers of various Maths under the banner of VHP and Bajrang Dal organised the event urging the Chief Minister to bring the anti-conversion Bill he had been...
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) questions the rationale behind the Karnataka government’s proposal for tabling the anti-conversion bill in...
Either by force or through inducement in the state, the Karnataka government would bring the law, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.