New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday quashed five FIRs filed in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district over alleged “mass religious conversions” of Hindus to Christianity, calling the cases legally flawed and a misuse of criminal law.

A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, in a 158-page judgment, ruled that the FIRs under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, and related IPC provisions were marred by “glaring infirmities, procedural lapses, and lack of credible material.” The court said continuing the prosecution would be a “travesty of justice.”

The petitions were filed by several accused, including Rajendra Bihari Lal, Vice-Chancellor of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS). The FIRs, registered bet

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