{"id":2955,"date":"2003-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/28\/2003-03-28-conversion-bill-passed-in-gujarat-state-assembly\/"},"modified":"2003-03-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-28T12:00:00","slug":"2003-03-28-conversion-bill-passed-in-gujarat-state-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/28\/2003-03-28-conversion-bill-passed-in-gujarat-state-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion Bill Passed in Gujarat State Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=41504474\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>GANDHINAGAR, INDIA, March 26, 2003: The Gujarat Freedom of Religion Bill, 2003, passed in the state assembly on Wednesday. It states anyone found converting a person from one religion to another &#8220;by force or any fraudulent means&#8221; can be fined up to US$2,000 or face up to three year&#8217;s imprisonment. The imprisonment period would be four years in the case of force or fraudulent means used against a minor, a woman, or a person belonging to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe. The bill requires a person performing the conversion ceremony to obtain prior permission from the district magistrate, and the person being converted inform the district magistrate after adopting a different religion. For anyone violating either of the two provisions the fine is US$20 and imprisonment for a year. Minister of State for Home Amit Shah said, &#8220;Reports have been received by the government that conversions from one religion to another are made by use of force or allurement or by fraudulent means.&#8221; The bill, he added, would act as a &#8220;deterrent against the antisocial and vested interest groups exploiting innocent people belonging to the depressed classes.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE GANDHINAGAR, INDIA, March 26, 2003: The Gujarat Freedom of Religion Bill, 2003, passed in the state assembly,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}