Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill

Before the Court was an amendment of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2021, whose main object was to give “meaningful” effect to the constitutionally guaranteed right of religious freedom by ensuring that gullible persons are not converted from one religion to another by use of “misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or fraudulent means”