Maha anti-conversion bill proposes 7-year jail, Rs 1 lakh fine | India News – The Times of India

Maha anti-conversion bill proposes 7-year jail, Rs 1 lakh fine | India News – The Times of India

MUMBAI: Maharashtra govt on Friday introduced a bill with stringent provisions to prevent religious conversions through coercion, fraud, or marriage if it involves inducement, coercion or deceit, joining other BJP-governed states that have enacted ‘freedom of religion’ laws. The Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026, tabled in the legislative assembly for debate sets a prison term…

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SC seeks states’ replies on anti-conversion laws | India News – The Times of India

SC seeks states’ replies on anti-conversion laws | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday asked states, which have enacted anti-conversion legislations and most of which are governed by BJP, to file their responses to pleas challenging stringent provisions in those laws criminalising inter-faith marriages. The laws seek to prohibit conversion through threat, allurement, deceit or influence. At the same time, SC put the onus…

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