Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has said that giving someone a Bible or speaking about a religion does not amount to a crime under the Uttar Pradesh anti conversion law. The court gave this decision while hearing a case in which a group of people were accused of attempting religious conversion by distributing Bibles and using a screen to share messages about Christianity.

The judges noted that the police had filed the case without any complaint from a person claiming they were forced or pressured to change religion. The court said that under the law, a case can be registered only when someone reports that they were forced, threatened or offered money or other benefits to convert.

The bench described the police action as unusual and questioned why an FIR was filed when no affected pe

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