Observing that criminal law cannot be used to harass innocent citizens, the Supreme Court on Friday quashed five first information reports filed in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district over alleged mass religious conversions of Hindus to Christianity, PTI reported.

A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra also set aside related criminal proceedings under the 2021 Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act against the vice chancellor and other officials of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences in Prayagraj.

The court quashed the FIRs that accused Vice Chancellor Rajendra Bihari Lal and others of participating in or facilitating forced conversions.

Pardiwala said that the FIRs had “legal infirmities, procedural lapses and lack o

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