EDITORIALRELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND ANTI-CONVERSION LAWS
When Protecting Against Coercion Becomes Its Own Coercion
The law arrives amid a pattern of disruption of Christian prayer meetings by groups like Bajrang Dal and VHP, followed by one-sided police action against the meetings' organisers rather than the disruptors. Its provisions - mandatory advance intimation to the district magistrate and the right of parents, siblings and relatives (not just the individual concerned) to file complaints - sit against the backdrop of the Supreme…
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