A division bench of the court comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta has ordered the issuance of notice to the state on Friday in the petition filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).
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The Supreme Court has ordered the issuance of a show-cause notice to the Rajasthan government on a writ petition filed against the enactment and the promulgation of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act 2025.
A division bench of the court comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta has ordered the issuance of notice to the state on Friday in the petition filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).
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The bench has also ordered tagging of the petition with similar petitions pending before the apex court against similar laws enacted and promulgated by different states of the country.
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Petitions against such laws passed by 8 states – Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh are pending before the court.
The petitioner in the writ has pleaded that in the enactment of “arbitrary and unreasonable” law, the state government has overstepped beyond the powers and authority and prayed before the court to declare the law “ultra vires”.
This is the fourth petition that has been filed before the apex court against the Rajasthan anti-conversion law. Earlier, three petitions filed by the Jaipur Catholic Welfare Society, Dashrath Kumar Hinunia and Others, and M Huzaifa have already been pending before the court.
The Rajasthan assembly has passed the bill on September 9, amid protests and a boycott by the opposition Congress. With the Governor’s consent, signature, and issuance of gazette notification, it became law on October 9.
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