Analysis Of The Controversial Provisions Of Anti-conversion Ordinance In Recent Years

Abstract

The fundamental rights to equality, life, and religion have all been deemed to be violated by the law that forbade the unlawful conversion of one faith into another. Individuals who witness or participate in a conversion claim that the Ordinance places undue pressure on both parties because it requires them to swear before the district magistrate that the conversion was the result of free will and that no dishonest marriages or other unethical methods, such as fraud or misrepresentation, coercion, undue influence, or allurement, occurred. It is necessary to make this declaration both before and after the conversion. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the individual who started the conversion to demonstrate that the interreligious union was not influenced by marriage or any other dishonest methods, including deception, compulsion, undue influence, or allurement. Such a rule of procedure has the effect of discouraging individuals from getting married in another religion and acting as a disincentive to getting married in any religion at all when combined with fines based on such careless laws