section 2
Definitions
The Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025General202518 sections
Statutory text
- (1) In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires,-
- (a) “allurement” means and includes offer of any temptation in the form of-
- (i) any gift, gratification, easy money or material benefit either in cash or kind;
- (ii) employment, free education in institutions run by anybody;
- (iii) better lifestyle, divine displeasure or otherwise;
- (iv) pretext of marriage;
- (v) portraying practice, rituals and ceremonies or any integral part of a religion in a detrimental way vis-à-vis another religion; or
- (vi) glorifying one religion against another religion;
- (b) “coercion” means forcing and compelling an individual to act against his/her will by the use of psychological pressure or physical force causing bodily injury or threat thereof;
- (c) “conversion” means a process of change at every stage from one set of religion, rituals and beliefs to another religion and its rituals and beliefs but the return of any person already converted to his original religion i.e ancestral religion shall not be deemed conversion;
- (d) “convincing for conversion” means to make one person agree to renounce one's religion and adopt another religion;
- (e) “digital mode” means and includes any electronic means of communication, data transmission, or content dissemination, including but not limited to:
- (i) social media networking sites that facilitate the creation of public or semi-public profiles, connections between users, and the viewing and traversal of such connections within a bounded system;
- (ii) social media applications designed for building online communities, sharing interests and activities, and enabling various forms of digital interaction such as electronic mail, messaging applications, and online forums;
- (iii) any other online or electronic platform, medium, or device used for communication, information exchange, or content publication;
- (f) “district magistrate” means an officer appointed as district magistrate and includes the additional district magistrate;
- (g) “force” includes a show of force or a threat of injury of any kind to the person converted or sought to be converted or to his parents, siblings, or any other person related by marriage, adoption, guardianship or custodianship or their property including a threat of divine displeasure or social ex-communication;
- (h) “fraudulent means” includes impersonation of any kind, by false name, surname, and religious symbol or otherwise;
- (i) “Institutions” means and includes all legal entities, educational institutions, orphanages, old age homes, hospitals, religious missionaries, non-governmental organization and such other organizations of public character;
- (j) “mass conversion” means where two or more persons are converted;
- (k) “minor” means a person under eighteen years of age;
- (l) “misinformation” means false or inaccurate information;
- (m) “online solicitation” means an act or omission that involves persuading someone to commit conversion through virtual mode;
- (n) “person” means any person, individual, group of person, society or trust either registered or unregistered, company or association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not;
- (o) “propaganda” means the systematic dissemination of information, ideas, or beliefs, including misinformation, through any medium (printed material, print media, social media, messaging applications, or any other digital mode), with the intent to cause or facilitate unlawful conversion by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement, fraudulent means, marriage, or pretext of marriage;
- (p) “property” or “premises” means and include any movable or immovable property which shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
- (q) “religion” means any organized system of worship pattern, faith, belief, worship or lifestyle, as prevailing in India or any part of it, and defined under any law or custom for the time being in force;
- (r) “religion convertor” means any person or persons of any religion who performs any act of conversion from one religion to another religion;
- (s) “religious priest” means priest of any religion who performs purification sanskar or conversion ceremony of any religion and by whatever name he is called such as pujari, pandit, mulla, maulvi, father etc.;
- (t) “undue influence” means the unconscientiously use by one person of his/her power or influence over another in order to persuade the other to act in accordance with the will of the person exercising such influence;
- (u) “unlawful conversion” means any conversion not in accordance with law of the land;
- (v) “victim” refers to a person who has suffered any loss or harm as a result of an offence under this Act, and it also includes the guardian and legal heir of such a victim.
- (a) “allurement” means and includes offer of any temptation in the form of-
- (2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act No. 45 of 2023), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act No. 46 of 2023), and the Rajasthan General Clauses Act, 1955 (Act No. 8 of 1955) and any other law for the time being in force in India or in State of Rajasthan shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those Codes/Acts.
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