The petitioners have argued there was no communal angle to the entire episode and they have settled the dispute that had led to the filing of the complaint.
The Gujarat High Court granted bail to all four people currently imprisoned in the state's first case filed under the new anti-conversion law on Wednesday.
Gujarat’s Rupani government passes bill against forcible conversion by marriage
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According to the newly introduced amendments to the Gujarat Religious Freedom Act 2003 on Thursday, “Insofar as conversion by marriage or by getting a person married or by aiding a person to get married is concerned, shall be punished with imprisonment.
In case a minor, a woman or someone from the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe is converted
After Uttar Pradesh and MP, Gujarat became the third state to pass an amendment bill providing for a prison sentence of up to 10 years for “forcible conversion by marriage”.