Uttar Pradesh authorities underneath Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has moved to make vital modifications within the love jihad regulation. The Yogi authorities has launched the Uttar Pradesh Illegal Spiritual Conversion Prohibition Invoice 2024 within the meeting, proposing a lifetime imprisonment for the convicts. The invoice additionally proposes to make funding for illegal non secular conversions a criminal offense underneath this regulation.
The Uttar Pradesh’s Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Act, 2021 had provisions for sentences starting from 1 to 10 years. Below this act, conversions solely for the aim of marriage is deemed invalid. Conversions carried out by means of deceit or falsehood can also be thought of felony offenses. For voluntary conversions, people should inform the Justice of the Peace two months upfront.
In keeping with the Act, compelled or deceitful conversions will end in a jail time period of 1 to five years together with a wonderful of Rs 15,000. If such actions contain minors, girls, or members of the SC-ST group, the penalty will increase to a jail time period of three to 10 years and a wonderful of Rs 25,000. The Act additionally stipulates that people in search of to transform should notify the district Justice of the Peace utilizing a prescribed kind two months upfront. Failure to conform will end in a jail time period of 6 months to three years and a minimal wonderful of Rs 10,000.
The love jihad and spiritual conversion have been a scorching matter in Uttar Pradesh and different BJP-ruled states.
