India’s Himachal Pradesh state has passed a new bill against ‘forced conversion’ which requires anyone seeking to convert to another religion to give a month’s notice to the district magistrate stating they are doing so by their own will.
Anti-conversion laws were already in force in seven states and Hindu radicals are calling to impose the legislation at the national level.
The bill prohibits the ‘offer of any temptation in the form of any gift or gratification or material benefit, either in cash or employment, free education in a reputed school run by any religious body, easy money, better lifestyle, divine pleasure or otherwise’.