SC to hear on Jan 2 pleas challenging state laws regulating conversions due to inter-faith marriageThe Supreme Court will also hear a plea by Muslim body 'Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind' which it had allowed last year to become a party to the petiti...
27 Dec, 2022, 04.51 PM IST
High Court issues notice to Karnataka govt on petition against anti-conversion lawThe Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion law was passed through an ordinance. The law is an affront against Article 25 of t...
23 Jul, 2022, 05.53 PM IST
Governor assents Ordinance, Karnataka notifies law banning religious conversion by forceThe BJP regime had announced that it will ban forceful religious conversions after sections of BJP and JD(S) MLAs complained that religious...
17 May, 2022, 08.36 PM IST
Karnataka Christian leaders ask governor not to sign conversion ordinanceThe proposed anti-conversion law would become a tool for 'fringe elements' to take law into their own hands and create communal unrest, the...
16 May, 2022, 11.34 PM IST
Certain groups want Karnataka govt to sideline minorities, says ArchbishopA delegation comprising six people, including bishops and priests, called on Governor Gehlot at the Raj Bhawan and appealed to him to stop ...
16 May, 2022, 08.34 PM IST
SC refuses to entertain plea against MP law on religious conversions"Approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court. We would like to have the views of the high court. We have sent similar matters back to the high c...
19 Feb, 2021, 03.14 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh's anti-conversion ordinance gets Governor's nod, becomes lawThe Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Ordinance, 2020, provides for ten years in jail in some cases. It has several provisions that are si...
09 Jan, 2021, 07.54 PM IST
Muslim body moves SC, seeks to be party in pleas against state laws on religious conversionJamiat Ulama-I-Hind in its application said that similar legislations are also being enacted or planned by various other states which also ...
06 Jan, 2021, 09.08 PM IST
UP's anti-conversion law cannot be sustained, contains many defects, says ex-SC judge Madan B Lokur"The Constitution says Ordinance can be passed if there is a need for immediate action. What is the need for immediate action to pass it wh...
22 Dec, 2020, 11.41 PM IST
Allahabad High Court seeks UP govt reply on plea against anti-conversion lawAccording to the petition, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had announced on October 31 that his dispensation would bring a law against "love...
18 Dec, 2020, 05.13 PM IST
The UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, explainedThe Uttar Pradesh government last month approved the draft of a stringent law to deal with religious conversion for the sake of marriage, w...
14 Dec, 2020, 12.51 PM IST
Made marriage law because women were complaining of forced conversion, says Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi AdityanathThe Uttar Pradesh government's Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance has drawn flak from across the country, but Uttar P...
12 Dec, 2020, 11.50 PM IST
Hindu girl files case against Muslim boy of forcing her to convert to Islam before marriageA case was filed under UP’s Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 on Thursday after a Hindu girl in Hardoi accused a...
11 Dec, 2020, 10.10 PM IST
UP registers first case under anti-conversion law in Bareilly districtIn a statement issued here on Sunday, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said that a case was registered by Tikaram, a resid...
29 Nov, 2020, 04.06 PM IST
UP Governor promulgates ordinance against forcible religious conversionsAccording to the Ordinance, a marriage will be declared “null and void” if the conversion of a woman is solely for that purpose, and those ...
28 Nov, 2020, 04.48 PM IST
UP clears ordinance to ‘stop love jihad’; provision for 1-5 year jailThe Uttar Pradesh Law Commission submitted a draft for the proposed law in November 2019. It was under the consideration of the home and la...
24 Nov, 2020, 11.57 PM IST
Two ordinances like swords dangling on Centre: Shiv SenaThe Cabinet cleared the ordinance to increase FDI cap from 26 to 49% in insurance sector and re-promulgation of the ordinance to allow resu...
26 Dec, 2014, 04.06 PM IST