Via PTI
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh has given his assent to the Freedom of Faith (Modification) Invoice, 2022, making illegal conversions a cognizable and non-bailable offence punishable with a jail time period of as much as 10 years.
The invoice used to be handed by means of the state meeting on November 30 this 12 months and the governor gave his assent to the law previous this week, professional resources stated right here on Saturday.
With the governor’s sanction of the invoice it has develop into an act paving the way in which for stricter punishment of offenders in such instances, they stated.
Excluding a most imprisonment of as much as ten years, individuals indulging in forceful and illegal conversion in Uttarakhand will now be slapped with a high quality of a minimum of Rs 50,000.
“Nobody shall convert, both immediately or differently, another individual from one faith to any other by means of use or apply of misrepresentation, pressure, undue affect, coercion, allurement or by means of any fraudulent manner. Nobody shall abet, persuade or conspire such conversion,” the Act stated.
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh has given his assent to the Freedom of Faith (Modification) Invoice, 2022, making illegal conversions a cognizable and non-bailable offence punishable with a jail time period of as much as 10 years.
The invoice used to be handed by means of the state meeting on November 30 this 12 months and the governor gave his assent to the law previous this week, professional resources stated right here on Saturday.
With the governor’s sanction of the invoice it has develop into an act paving the way in which for stricter punishment of offenders in such instances, they stated.
Excluding a most imprisonment of as much as ten years, individuals indulging in forceful and illegal conversion in Uttarakhand will now be slapped with a high quality of a minimum of Rs 50,000.
“Nobody shall convert, both immediately or differently, another individual from one faith to any other by means of use or apply of misrepresentation, pressure, undue affect, coercion, allurement or by means of any fraudulent manner. Nobody shall abet, persuade or conspire such conversion,” the Act stated.