Gujarat Freedom of Religions Act, of the Gujarat Legislature, was assented to by the Governor on the 7th April, 2003. It is Act to provide for freedom of religion by prohibition of conversion from one religion to another by the use of force or allurement or by fraudulent means and for the matters incidental thereto. It was enacted in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India.
This Act was enacted to counter 'proselytising X-tians' in distant forest-villages. It also took in its ambit conversion to Islam for Second Marriage, like Dharmendra marrying Hema Malini by converting for mere name-sake or adoption of Hindu Child by a foreigner.
By SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 1582 of 2009, Constitutional validity of this Act was challenged before Gujarat HC by United Christian Forum for Human Rights (UCFHR) Delhi Based NGO, Sanchetana NGO & others. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/constitutional-validity-of-gujarat-freedom-of-religion-act-challenged-in-hc/428621/ The matter is pending disposal till date.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind issued a press release to cancel Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act with the following text: New Delhi: Janab Nusrat Ali, Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has demanded Gujarat government to revoke original act, Gujarat freedom of Religion Act, better known as Anti-Conversion Bill, which was adopted in 2003.
Hope this suffices our purpose.
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-Joshi NM
What is the current status of the Gujarat Freedom of Religions Act ? Guj HC had admitted a petition challenging it in 2009.On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Joshi NM <naishadhjoshi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Sarabjit,Greetings.Like you, I am not politically affiliated to any party and do support persons or parties based on issues or merits, from time to time.While attempting never to forget judicial activism and media hype in case of NaMo for post Godhra Rajdharm, I feel obliged, without any political bias and purely advocating Rajdharm of Governments in power in state or center, the following is the worst ever example of forgotten Rajdharm by Government and duty by media:Date: 22 May 1987.State Chief Minister: Vir Bahadur Singh, INCPrime Minister: Rajiv Gandhi, INCKilled: 42 persons allegedly by PAC-state.Inquiry Commissions: *Sachar & IK Gujarat -Report dated: 23/06/1987.State Inquiry: In 1988, (After 1 Year) the Government of In 1988, the Government of Uttar Pradesh ordered an inquiry by the Crime Branch Central Investigation Department (CBCID) of Uttar Pradesh Police. The three-member official investigation team headed by former auditor general Gian Prakash submitted its report in 1994,[13] though it wasn't made public till 1995, when victims moved the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court.Judicial Result: After the inquiry, chargesheet was filed with the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Ghaziabad in 1996 under Section 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), who subsequently issued warrants to the accused policemen to appear before the court. Bailable warrants were issued 23 times against them between 1994 and 2000, yet none of them appeared in court. This was followed by non-bailable warrants which were issued 17 times between April 1998 and April 2000, to no avail. Eventually, under public pressure, 16 of the accused surrendered before the Ghaziabad court in 2000, and were subsequently released on bail and were back in service.Short Narration:Hashimpura massacre took place on 22 May 1987, during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state, India, when 19 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) allegedly rounded up 42 Muslim youth from the Hashimpura mohalla (locality) of the city, took them in truck to the outskirts, near Murad Nagar, in Ghaziabad district, where they were shot and their bodies were dumped in water canals. A few days later dead bodies were found floating in the canals. In May 2000, 16 of the 19 accused surrendered, and were later released on bail, while 3 were already dead. The trial of the case was transferred by the Supreme Court of India in 2002 from Ghaziabad to a Sessions Court at the Tis Hazari complex in Delhi,[1][2] where it is the oldest pending case.[3]
On 24 May 2007, twenty years after the incident, two survivors and members of 36 victim families visited Lucknow and filed 615 applications under The Right to Information Act 2005(RTI), at the office of Director General of Police seeking information about the case.[4] The inquiry revealed in September that all accused remained in service, and none had any mention of the incident in their Annual Confidential Report (ACR)s.[5] Five men who were shot and survived, later became witness for the prosecution case in 2007. These include Muzib-ur-Rehman, Mohamad Usman, Zulfiqar Nasir, and Naeem Arif.[6]
Gujarat performed much better but Indian Intelligentsia is always criminally bias in concealing misdid (Lapse in Rajdharma) of one particular party while hammering and subjecting citizens with continuous bombardment against vicarious (Not Real or Legal) liability of opponent Party.
Hope I have made my example very clear with the aforesaid citation.
best regards,
-Joshi NM
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