The Supreme Court on Friday removed the Allahabad High Court’s comment from its judgment that if religious events where religious conversions take place are not stopped, the country’s majority population will one day become a minority. A bench of Chief Justice (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justice Manoj Mishra passed this order while granting bail to a person named Kailash, against whom Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act and Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code (disturbing a person secretly) A case was registered under the Indian Penal Code and kidnapping with intent to commit wrongful confinement).
The top court granted relief to the accused saying that he is in custody from May 21, 2023. “We make it clear that the general observations made by the High Court had no bearing on the facts of the present case and, therefore, they were not required for disposal of the case,” the bench said. Therefore, these observations will not be cited in any other case or proceeding in the High Court or any other court.”
Earlier on July 2, the high court, while hearing the bail plea, had taken note of allegations that the applicant was taking people from Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh to a religious gathering in Delhi for religious conversion and had said, “If If this process is allowed to continue, the majority population of this country will one day become a minority…”
The High Court, while denying bail to the accused, had said that such conversion is against the Constitution, which allows only freedom of conscience and unimpeded practice, practice and propagation of religion.
