Is right to conversion a part of article 25: From the lens of Anti-Conversion Laws (Paper)
- Chinmaya Gupta, SLS Noida
- December 27, 2020
Content :
All the countries in the world guarantee freedom of religion in some form or the other. Such a guarantee assumes special importance in a0multireligion country like India which owes its religious diversity to history rather than any recent or contemporary phenomena. Religion is a volatile issue in India0and religious conversions add more to the volatility of the issue therefore various state governments have enacted anti-conversion laws with the purported aim of preventing conversions brought about by coercion or inducements. Such laws have been a subject of intense criticism and have been alleged as0infringing on one’s right to freedom of religion. The aim of this paper is to find out whether the right to conversion is a part of Article 25 i.e the right to freedom of religion, from the lens of anti conversion laws. The paper extensively deals with the elements of prohibitions, the scope of constitutional protection to religious freedom , analysed the constitutionality of anti conversion laws. Besides these, the author also analysed the effects and after effects of Stainislaus judgement.
