New Delhi: A 19-year-old man belonging to the Scheduled Caste community has moved the Supreme Court, urging to be made a party in a batch of pleas relating to the issue of religious conversions in the country.

The plea filed by Abhishek Khateek claimed that he is a victim of coercive and fraudulent religious conversion in a shelter home in Madhya Pradesh, where, he alleged, he was compelled to participate in Christian prayers, prevented from visiting temples and subjected to psychological and religious coercion.

The petition, filed through advocate Ashwani Dubey, submitted that his present application arises out of an FIR filed at a police station in Madhav Nagar, Katni, Madhya Pradesh, following a surprise inspection conducted by Priyank Kanoongo, then Chairperson of the National Commi

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