Gujarat Passes Invoice Penalising Forcible Non secular Conversion Via Marriage
The Invoice used to be handed after a day-long dialogue within the Gujarat Meeting
Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat Meeting on Thursday handed an modification Invoice which gives for a jail sentence of as much as ten years for fraudulent or forcible conversion through marriage.
The Invoice amended a 2003 regulation which penalises spiritual conversion via coercion or allurement.
As in keeping with the federal government, the Gujarat Freedom of Faith (Modification) Invoice, 2021 sought to curtail “rising pattern during which ladies are lured to marriage for the aim of non secular conversion”.
The primary opposition Congress voted in opposition to the invoice.
BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have not too long ago enacted an identical rules banning “fraudulent” conversions via marriage.
As in keeping with the modification, a forcible “conversion through marriage, or through getting an individual married, or through helping an individual to get married” shall invite imprisonment of 3 to 5 years and a fantastic of as much as Rs 2 lakh.
If the individual is a minor, lady, Dalit or tribal, the culprit could also be punished with a prison time period of 4 to seven years and a fantastic of now not not up to Rs three lakh.
If an organisation violates the regulation, the individual in price will also be sentenced to minimal 3 years and most ten years in prison.
The Invoice used to be handed after a day-long dialogue within the Space.
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