A man refused to accept his elderly mother back into his home because she is a Christian, bringing a heartbreaking family reunion to a painful halt after more than 20 years. Sushila Murmu, now in her seventies, had been missing from her village in Jharkhand’s Godda district for over two decades. She was recently traced […]

Allahabad HC orders police protection for 12 interfaith live-in couples, asks respondents to refrain from interfering with their privacy; State had argued the relationships were unlawful Stating that no one among the 12 interfaith live-in partners have converted from his/her religion and hence don’t attract penalty under the anti-conversion law, the Allahabad High Court on […]

KOCHI: In an attempt to appease the Christian community in Kerala ahead of the assembly polls, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju has assured Syro-Malabar Church Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil that the Centre will consider the request to accord the community micro-minority status. The minister who visited Thattil at St Thomas Mount, the church […]

Last year, the Supreme Court had delivered a split verdict on a plea seeking permission to bury a deceased Christian pastor in Chhattisgarh in the village graveyard or on his agricultural land. The Supreme Court issued the stay while hearing a PIL regarding tribal Christians being denied burial rights in their villages. (Source: File) The […]

The Central Bureau of Investigation has submitted before the Supreme Court the chargesheet filed by it in the case relating to the suicide of a school girl at a Christian missionary-run school in Thanjavur District in Tamil Nadu in 2022. The death of the girl had hit the headlines nationwide following allegations that she resorted […]

The petitioners contended before the Chhattisgarh High Court that the hoardings were installed by respective gram sabhas exercising powers under the PESA framework. The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the Chhattisgarh High Court order, which asked petitioners challenging hoardings put up by some gram sabhas barring the entry of Christian “pastors and […]

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a writ petition seeking direction to the Centre and States to register all schools and institutions imparting secular education and/or religious instruction to children up to the age of 14 years. A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma allowed the petitioner to withdraw […]

Prayagraj , The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to a Tamil Nadu resident in a case involving alleged unlawful religious conversion in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. The bail application was allowed by Justice Ashutosh Srivastava. According to police, Dev Sahayam Deniyal Raj was the gang leader who lured people for religious conversion and […]

Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to condemn the attacks on Christians in the country and said the Government has a duty to protect the rights of religious minorities. “We have been approaching government authorities whenever there is an attack. We don’t […]

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from Centre and states on a petition by National Council of Churches alleging freedom of religion laws enacted by states violate citizens’ fundamental rights by criminalising voluntary and conscience-based conversions and arguing that prior govt-approval for conversion violates individuals’ right to privacy. One of the laws challenged […]

Allahabad High Court was hearing a plea alleging inaction by the authorities concerned on petitioner’s representations seeking permission to hold a religious prayer meeting within private property. The Allahabad High Court recently held that no prior permission from the state authorities is required to conduct religious prayer meetings within one’s own private premises, observing that […]

Express analysed case records since 2018 when Act was introduced: Courts flag gaps in probe, consent of couples, no proof of coercion. Nearly seven years after the BJP government in Uttarakhand enacted a law to curb “forced religious conversions”, court records show the statute may be falling short of a basic legal test: evidence. Even […]