JAIPUR: The Bhajan Lal Sharma govt in Rajasthan on Monday launched a invoice that seeks to ban spiritual conversions carried out by drive, inducement, fraud or marriage.
The Rajasthan Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Invoice, 2025, tabled within the meeting by well being minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar, makes such conversions a cognizable and non-bailable offence, and stipulates a punishment of as much as 10 years in jail and a advantageous as much as Rs 50,000 for these discovered responsible.
In accordance with the proposed laws, people who need to ‘voluntarily’ convert should apply to the district Justice of the Peace 60 days upfront.
The invoice states that if a wedding is proved to have taken place for the only real function of conversion, such a wedding could also be annulled by court docket. Introducing the laws, govt mentioned all people had been free to evangelise, practise and propagate any faith of their selection, however “individual right to freedom of conscience and religion cannot be extended to construe a collective right to proselytize”.
If an establishment or organisation is discovered responsible of violating the proposed anti-conversion regulation, its registration shall be cancelled.
