While quashing the FIRs against several persons including Rajendra Bihari Lal, vice-chancellor of Uttar Pradesh's Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), the court observed that “criminal law cannot be a tool to harass innocent citizens” and even questioned the constitutionality of several sections of the law

xThe Supreme Court judgment last week quashing five first information reports against a set of people for alleged mass conversions under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, comes as a welcome relief. The right-minded people in the country who fear for the survival of several values, including secularism, that guide its governance have reason to feel comforted as the ruling has sought to address several issu

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