The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Union Ministries of Law and Home Affairs on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking stringent steps to control religious conversion through fraud and intimidation..A Bench of Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari posted the matter for hearing on November 14.The plea filed by BJP spokesperson Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay claimed that fraudulent and deceitful religious conversion is rampant across the country, and that the Central government has failed to control its menace."There is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by 'hook and cook and the carrot and the stick'," the plea read..Further, it stated that if such conversions were not checked, Hindus would soon become a minority in India. Thus, the Centre was obligated to enact a country-wide law for the same.The plea seeks directions to the Law Commission of India to prepare a report and a Bill to control 'deceitful religious conversion.'Also sought is a declaration from the Court that fraudulent religious conversion and conversion by intimidation, threatening and through gifts and monetary benefits offends Articles 14, 21 and 25 of the Indian Constitution..Notably, the plea also sought for directions to an appropriate investigating agency to investigate the root-cause of the death of a 17-year-old, who committed suicide in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, allegedly because she was forced by her school to convert to Christianity.The apex court is already seized of this matter, and had refused to stay the ongoing probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ordered by the Madras High Court..Thanjavur student suicide: Supreme Court refuses to stay CBI probe but issues notice on plea by TN DGP
The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Union Ministries of Law and Home Affairs on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking stringent steps to control religious conversion through fraud and intimidation..A Bench of Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari posted the matter for hearing on November 14.The plea filed by BJP spokesperson Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay claimed that fraudulent and deceitful religious conversion is rampant across the country, and that the Central government has failed to control its menace."There is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by 'hook and cook and the carrot and the stick'," the plea read..Further, it stated that if such conversions were not checked, Hindus would soon become a minority in India. Thus, the Centre was obligated to enact a country-wide law for the same.The plea seeks directions to the Law Commission of India to prepare a report and a Bill to control 'deceitful religious conversion.'Also sought is a declaration from the Court that fraudulent religious conversion and conversion by intimidation, threatening and through gifts and monetary benefits offends Articles 14, 21 and 25 of the Indian Constitution..Notably, the plea also sought for directions to an appropriate investigating agency to investigate the root-cause of the death of a 17-year-old, who committed suicide in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, allegedly because she was forced by her school to convert to Christianity.The apex court is already seized of this matter, and had refused to stay the ongoing probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ordered by the Madras High Court..Thanjavur student suicide: Supreme Court refuses to stay CBI probe but issues notice on plea by TN DGP
