New Delhi: Pointing out that the quality of investigation and the complaint failed to inspire confidence, the Supreme Court Friday set aside a criminal case of religious conversion against the vice chancellor, director, and three other officials of the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), which was earlier known as the Allahabad Agricultural Institute.

Quashing the criminal case, which was registered under the IPC and various provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021, a bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the FIR “suffers from an incurable legal defect, having been lodged by a person otherwise not competent in law to do so as per the then prevailing statutory scheme. In such circumstan

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