Plea filed in SC seeking direction to control religious conversion
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Updated: Apr 01, 2021 13:16 IST
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to take steps to control religious conversion by "intimidating, threatening or deceivingly luring unwitting individuals with gifts or monetary benefits or by using miracles, superstition, and black magic".
The plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, sought direction to the Centre to ascertain the feasibility of appointing a committee to enact a conversion of religion act to check the abuse of religion in the spirit of the direction in a judgement of the top court.