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Bill against forced mass conversion
August 15 , 2022
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- The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill on August 13, 2022 forbidding "mass conversion".
- The Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2022, was passed unanimously.
- It is enhancing the maximum punishment to 10 years imprisonment in its 2019 law against any change of religion through force or allurement.
- The Bill inserts the reference to "mass conversion", which is described as two or more people converting at the same time, in the 2019 Act.
- It proposes to increase the punishment for forced conversions to a maximum of 10 years from seven years.
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