The Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025
The Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025
The Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025 regulates religious conversions across Rajasthan by banning conversions carried out through force, coercion, undue influence, fraud, misrepresentation, allurement, propaganda, or marriage. The law applies to all individuals, religious priests, organizations, and institutions operating within the state. For ordinary citizens, it establishes strict notice and declaration rules for voluntary conversion while criminalizing deceptive practices, forced conversions, and deceitful marriages. It also penalizes foreign funding linked to illegal conversions and restores an individual's pre-conversion welfare classification if a conversion is invalidated, ensuring transparency and preventing exploitation.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Prohibition of conversion from one religion to another religion by misrepresentation, misinformation, force, undue
- 4. Person competent to lodge First Information Report
- 5. Punishment for contravention of provisions of section 3
- 6. Marriage done for sole purpose of unlawful conversion or vice-versa to be declared null and void
- 7. Offences to be non-bailable and cognizable
- 8. Declaration before conversion of religion and prereport about conversion
- 9. Declaration post conversion of religion
- 10. Punishment for violation of provisions of the Act by an institution or organization
- 11. Parties to offence
- 12. Forfeiture and confiscation of property
- 13. Demolition of illegal construction
- 14. Burden of proof
- 15. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 16. Act to be in addition to any other law
- 17. Power to make rules
- 18. Power to remove difficulties
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