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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
TopicReligious conversion

Topic: Religious conversion

Delhi Bar council suspends lawyer’s license for using chamber for ‘religious conversion’

The council Monday issued a show-cause notice to lawyer Iqbal Malik for allegedly forcibly converting a Hindu girl to Islam and performing nikah from his chamber in Karkardooma courts.

SC rejects petition seeking SIT probe into ‘forceful conversion’ in Haryana’s Nuh

The plea alleged the liberty & religious rights of Hindus in Nuh are being eroded by the minority community. The apex court said it can't entertain a plea based on newspaper reports.

SC rejects plea for directions to curb forced religious conversions, black magic

An apex court bench said there is no reason why a person above 18 can't be allowed to choose their religion and refused to grant permission to a representation to the law commission.

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Hemant Soren’s divide-and-rule Adivasi politics at Harvard is against Birsa Munda’s vision

Jharkhand CM Soren may have played into the hands of modern-day missionaries or possibly acted at the behest of the conversion bogey.

Yes, Constitution makers strongly debated conversion. But here’s what UP’s new law misses

Even while drafting India’s Constitution, members across political parties were concerned about the spectre of mass conversions in colonial India.

Couple moves court for protection, becomes first to be booked under Uttarakhand’s religion law

Two months after Uttarakhand HC ordered an inquiry, the couple, a relative and the qazi are booked for religious conversion of the woman without following norms of 2018 Act.

MP cabinet approves ordinance on bill against religious conversion

Violating the Freedom of Religion Bill will attract a jail term of up to 10 years, which includes conversions for the sake of marriage.

About 35 arrests, dozen FIRs in first month of Uttar Pradesh’s unlawful conversion law

The Uttar Pradesh police have made more than one arrest a day under the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, which came into effect on 27 November.

Madhya Pradesh cabinet approves bill against religious conversion

The Religious Freedom Bill 2020 provides for prison term of up to 10 years and fine of Rs 1 lakh for conversion through marriage or by any other fraudulent means.

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Army chief’s big warning to Pakistan: Stop sponsoring terrorism if you want to exist geographically

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