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: Gujarat HC stays several sections against interfaith marriage in anti-conversion law #IndiaNEWS The Gujarat High Court on Thursday put a stay on several sections of the amended law against forced religious

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Gujarat HC stays several sections against interfaith marriage in anti-conversion law #IndiaNEWS
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday put a stay on several sections of the amended law against forced religious conversion through marriage, The Indian Express reported. The sections put on hold include the one that defined interfaith marriage as a reason for forceful conversion.The Gujarat Assembly had in April passed the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2021, to stop the “emerging trend in which women are lured to marriage for the purpose of religious conversion�. The law provides for a punishment of three to 10 years in jail and a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh.The Bill enacted new provisions, including a revised definition of “prohibition of forcible conversion�. Section 3 of the Act was amended to criminalise conversion “by use of force or by allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage or by getting a person married or by aiding a person to get married�, according to The Indian Express.The court has now put a stay on Sections 3, 4, 4A, 4B , 4C, 5, 6 and 6A of the Act.The order passed on Thursday is an interim one on two petitions challenging the new amendments. The petitions submitted that the amended law goes against the basic principles of marriage and violates Article 25 of the...Read more


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