SC anguished over plea seeking new law to check religious conversions
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed anguish at a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to take steps and consider a new law to check religious conversions.
| 10 April 2021 1:39 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed anguish at a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to take steps and consider a new law to check religious conversions.
A bench headed by Justice R.F. Nariman said there is a reason why word propagate is there in the Constitution and there is no reason why persons above 18 cannot be allowed to choose their religion. Declining to entertain the PIL by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, the bench said: It is a publicity interest litigation. After a brief hearing in the matter Upadhyay agreed to withdraw the petition.
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The Supreme Court on Friday orally observed every person aged 18 and above has a right to choose his or her religion while refusing to entertain a PIL seeking direction to the Centre and states to control “black magic, superstition and religious conversion”.
A bench of Justices R.F. Nariman and Hemant Gupta warned the petitioner Ashwini Upadhyaya that it would impose a heavy cost on him if he persisted with the arguments, forcing the latter to withdraw the petition.
“I don’t see a reason as to why any person above the age of 18 years cannot choose his religion. There is a reason why the word propagate is there in the Indian Constitution,” Justice Nariman heading the bench told the petitioner, an advocate.
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Maintaining that an adult is free to choose a religion of his or her choice, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a BJP leader’s PIL seeking directions to ban black magic, superstition and fraudulent religious conversions.
Violates Article 25
There is a reason why word ‘propagate’ figures in Article 25 of Constitution, which guarantees right to religion. SC Bench
“We don’t see a reason why a person above 18 years can’t choose his or her religion,” a Bench, headed by Justice RF Nariman, said, terming Delhi BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay’s PIL a “publicity interest litigation”.
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