While quashing FIRs against the Vice Chancellor and other officials of the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Science (SHUATS), Prayagraj, over alleged forced mass religious conversions of people to Christianity, the Supreme Court raised concerns over some provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.

The Court noted that the UP Act puts a very onerous burden on a person wanting to adopt a faith other than the one he professes.

The Court also underlined that the people of India have the liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship, and this liberty is an embodiment and expression of the secular nature of the country.

A bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra , while noting that the

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