: How have legal cases seeking to strike down India’s anti-conversion laws fared? #IndiaNEWS Even as an anti-conversion bill awaits the approval of the Karnataka Legislative Council, legal challenges

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How have legal cases seeking to strike down India’s anti-conversion laws fared? #IndiaNEWS
Even as an anti-conversion bill awaits the approval of the Karnataka Legislative Council, legal challenges are already being prepared against it. If it is passed, Karnataka would become the tenth Indian state to have a law banning religious conversions effected on the basis of misrepresentation, force, fraud, allurement or marriage.These laws, critics say, are used to target religious minorities and inter-faith couples. Since 2017, five states, all led by Bharatiya Janata Party governments, have either passed new anti-conversion laws or updated existing ones. The new versions of the laws put in place stricter punishments and newer grounds for restricting conversions, such as conversion “by marriage� – where a person who adopts another faith to enter into a marriage would be deemed to have been forcibly converted.In addition, two other BJP-ruled states, Harayana and Assam, have announced plans to move similar laws.Anti-conversion laws have been challenged in courts ever since Odisha moved the first such legislation in 1967. However, the courts have a mixed record defending freedom of choice with regard to religion, ruling in favour of individual liberty in some cases but not in others.The precedent for such cases was established by the Supreme Court in 1977, when a five-judge upheld the constitutionality of India’s first two anti-conversion laws:...Read more

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