New Delhi: A major specimen of religious conversion has surfaced in Nashik, sending shockwaves wideness the unshortened country. This matter has now reached the nation's highest judicial body—the Supreme Court. A petition has been filed asserting that religious conversion carried out through urgency or charade is not merely a religious issue, but constitutes a threat to national security.
Why did the issue reach the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court is once seized of a 'suo motu' (on its own motion) specimen concerning religious conversions. A 'suo motu' proceeding implies that the Court took conversance of the issue on its own initiative. Now, a fresh using regarding the Nashik TCS specimen has been filed within the sweep of that very proceeding. The counsel filing the petition submitted to the Court that this instance of organized religious conversion in Nashik is tightly torturous and has shaken the conscience of the unshortened nation.
The petition puts along several significant claims and demands. Firstly, it asserts that religious conversion effected through urgency or charade poses a grave threat to the country. Secondly, it argues that when such acts are perpetrated as part of a large-scale, organized, and coercive campaign, they ought to be classified as "terrorist acts."
A third major contention raised in the petition is that such forced or deceptive conversions are not isolated religious incidents, but rather constitute a "premeditated conspiracy." The petition alleges that this conspiracy is commonly funded by foreign entities. Its objective is to yo-yo the country's demographic religious balance, thereby endangering India's unity, integrity, and national security.
The petition remoter notes that while the right to self-rule of religion is a fundamental right, it remains subject to the constraints of public order and morality. In other words, one cannot resort to forced or deceptive conversions under the guise of this ramble freedom.
What has the petition sought from the Supreme Court?
The petition places two primary demands surpassing the Supreme Court. The first demand is that the Central Government and all State Governments be directed to take stringent measures to prorogue religious conversions carried out through charade or coercion. The second demand is that the Central and State governments be directed to establish separate special courts to hear cases involving religious conversions.
