Jaipur: Any person opting for religious conversion of one’s volition should inform the District Collector 30 days in advance, the Rajasthan High Court said on Friday while issuing guidelines to check forced religious conversions.
Issuing fresh guidelines for matters relating to religious conversions, Justice GK Vyas warned that stringent action would be taken against those found forcing people to convert.
"If any particular organisation is found guilty (of forcing) for caste conversion, its licence will be cancelled," he observed.
Violation of the guidelines would mean an inter-faith couple’s marriage would be deemed void if a complaint is submitted against it, a report in The Indian Express said.
Inter-faith marriages will have to be solemnised within a week of the legal conversion, the report added.
On November 28, the amicus curiae appointed by the Rajasthan High Court to look into the legality of religious conversions in the state had advised the court to issue guidelines for conversions until a law was enacted by the government in this regard.
The amicus curiae was appointed by the court following a habeas corpus petition filed by Chirag Singhvi, brother of Aarifa Modi alias Payal Singhvi, which challenged the conversion of his sister from Hinduism to Islam and then her marriage to a Muslim man.
The division bench of justices GK Vyas and Virendra Kumar Mathur had adjourned the hearing for arguments by the government and other respondents.
(With IANS inputs)
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