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Rajasthan Assembly Passes Controversial Anti-Conversion Bill Amidst Opposition Protests
The Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Bill, 2025, includes punishments up to life imprisonment and fines up to ₹1 crore for forced or fraudulent conversions, aiming to protect vulnerable groups.
- On Tuesday, the Rajasthan Assembly approved the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2025, with provisions for life imprisonment and fines up to ₹1 crore.
- After replacing a Bill tabled in February this year, the state argued the law is needed to protect vulnerable groups from forced conversions, citing Article 25 of the Constitution and Supreme Court and High Courts rulings, while joining other BJP-ruled states with similar laws.
- The Bill makes offences cognisable and non-bailable, triable by the sessions court, with penalties from 7 to life years, fines up to 25 lakh, and property confiscation or demolition.
- Opposition Congress MLAs immediately protested, boycotted the debate, and staged a walkout as the BJP-led Rajasthan government passed the Bill by voice vote, making Rajasthan the latest BJP-ruled state to adopt strict anti-conversion measures.
- The law empowers courts to void marriages done for conversion and permits seizure or demolition of properties and institutional licences where mass conversions occur, following Rajasthan's 2006 and 2008 laws and High Court guidelines of 2017, with an ancestral religion exemption.
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Rajasthan Assembly Passes Anti-Conversion Bill With Life Imprisonment Provision
The Rajasthan Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill that proposes imprisonment of 20 years to life for mass conversions through deception and a jail term of seven to 14 years for conversions by fraudulent means.
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Rajasthan Assembly Passes Anti-conversion Bill with Life Imprisonment Provision
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Rajasthan Minister Jogaram Patel said the anti-conversion law passed by the Assembly carries stringent provisions, including prison terms of up to life imprisonment, and was cleared despite protests by the Opposition. India News | Rajasthan Assembly Passes Anti-conversion Bill with Life Imprisonment Provision.
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