A top court in a northern Indian state has called for a stop to Christian religious meetings saying they may lead to the conversion of majority Hindus to Christianity.
A single bench of Allahabad High Court on July 1 told the Uttar Pradesh government to immediately stop “such religious congregations… where conversion is taking place.”
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal also said that “if this process is allowed to be carried out, the majority population of this country would be in the minority one day.”
He reportedly made the observations while rejecting the bail plea of Kailash who was charged under the provisions of the state’s stringent law that criminalizes religious conversion.
Police had booked Kailash, who was mentioned by a single name, for allegedly taking along an acquaintance from Hamirpur village to Delhi to attend a social gathering where many people converted to Christianity.
“It has come to the notice of this court in several cases that unlawful activity of conversion of people of Scheduled Castes [Dalits or former untouchables] and Scheduled Tribes [indigenous tribal people] and other castes, including economically poor persons, to Christianity is being done at rampant pace throughout the state,” Agarwal observed during the hearing.
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