The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Rajasthan government to respond to a petition questioning the constitutional validity of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025, a law that imposes stringent jail terms for what the state describes as forced, fraudulent or mass religious conversions.

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih issued notice on a petition filed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India and ordered the plea to be tagged with previously filed petitions challenging the provisions of the same statute.

The petitioner has urged the court to hold the 2025 Act “ultra vires and unconstitutional.”

The Rajasthan law prescribes 20 years to life imprisonment for mass conversions allegedly carried out through deception and

See Full Page