The Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) 2020 bill is slated to be tabled before the Madhya Pradesh cabinet for approval. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra said that the Bill will be cleared in a special Cabinet meeting on December 26 and then will be tabled in the Assembly.
The state government has recommended a 10-year jail term for luring, threatening, and forcing someone into marriage for religious conversion, in the proposed Dharm Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Bill 2020.
Madhya Pradesh: Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Bill 2020 to be tabled before the Cabinet for its approval today.
— ANI (@ANI) December 22, 2020
The three-day session of the Legislative Assembly is scheduled to begin on December 28.
Under the Freedom of Religion Bill, both parties have to write an application to the District Magistrate one month before the conversion and marriage. There is also a provision of five-year jail term in the draft bill for the priests or religious gurus, who solemnise such marriages without seeking the district magistrate's nod.
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