New Delhi, 28/11: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the right to freedom of religion does not include a fundamental right to convert other people to a particular religion.
It also backed the laws to check illegal conversion, saying those were necessary to protect “cherished rights of vulnerable sections of the society including women and economically and socially backward classes”.
In a written reply to a PIL by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay against conversion by various means, the Ministry of Home Affairs said it is cognisant of the gravity and the seriousness of the issue raised in the present writ petition
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