Governor offers assent to stricter anti-conversion regulation in Uttarakhand
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DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh has given his assent to the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2022, making illegal conversions a cognizable and non-bailable offence punishable with a jail time period of as much as 10 years.
The invoice was handed by the state meeting on November 30 this 12 months and the governor gave his assent to the laws earlier this week, official sources stated right here on Saturday.
With the governor’s sanction of the invoice it has grow to be an act paving the best way for stricter punishment of offenders in such circumstances, they stated.
Apart from a most imprisonment of as much as ten years, individuals indulging in forceful and illegal conversion in Uttarakhand will now be slapped with a high-quality of no less than Rs 50,000.
“No person shall convert, either directly or otherwise, any other person from one religion to another by use or practice of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means. No person shall abet, convince or conspire such conversion,” the Act stated.
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh has given his assent to the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2022, making illegal conversions a cognizable and non-bailable offence punishable with a jail time period of as much as 10 years.
The invoice was handed by the state meeting on November 30 this 12 months and the governor gave his assent to the laws earlier this week, official sources stated right here on Saturday.
With the governor’s sanction of the invoice it has grow to be an act paving the best way for stricter punishment of offenders in such circumstances, they stated.
Apart from a most imprisonment of as much as ten years, individuals indulging in forceful and illegal conversion in Uttarakhand will now be slapped with a high-quality of no less than Rs 50,000.
“No person shall convert, either directly or otherwise, any other person from one religion to another by use or practice of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means. No person shall abet, convince or conspire such conversion,” the Act stated.
