New Delhi, Nov 6 (PTI) The Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti, a Hindu outfit, moved the Supreme Court on Thursday, seeking to intervene in pleas filed against the laws enacted to curb unlawful and forced conversions in several states.

The plea, filed through advocate Atulesh Kumar, challenges the petitions filed against enacted legislations in several states, including the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act, 2018, the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, the Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2019 and the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2021.

In September, the top court had transferred to itself the petitions pending before various high courts, challenging the controversial laws regulating religious conversion upon inter-faith marriages, which

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