UP Assembly passes invoice on non secular conversion amid din

Amid protests by the Opposition, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Wednesday handed by voice vote a invoice aimed toward curbing non secular conversions by fraudulent or some other undue means, together with via marriage.
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2021 seeks to exchange the ordinance promulgated in November final yr that gives for imprisonment as much as 10 years and a most fantastic of Rs 50,000 for violators.
The invoice was handed within the House at the same time as Aradhana Misra, the Congress Legislative Party chief and Lalji Verma, the chief of BSP within the Assembly, protested.
Under the invoice, a wedding shall be declared “null and void” if the conversion is solely for that goal, and people wishing to alter their faith after marriage want to use to the district Justice of the Peace.

The invoice primarily envisages that no particular person shall convert, both immediately or not directly from one faith to a different by use or follow of misrepresentation, power, undue affect, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage nor shall any particular person abet, persuade or conspire such conversion.
The onus to show that the conversion has not been executed forcibly will lie on the particular person accused of the act and the convert, it stated.
An aggrieved particular person, his/her mother and father, brother, sister, or some other one who is said to him/her by blood, marriage or adoption might lodge an FIR about such conversion, in response to the invoice.

BJP leaders had stated the laws intends to counter alleged makes an attempt to transform Hindu ladies to Islam within the guise of marriage, which right-wing Hindu activists seek advice from as ”love jihad”.