Supreme Court: UP Anti-Conversion Law chuan tih theih loh tur Condition a Siam a ni, Ngaihtuah Uluk a Ngai Ang

• Oct 24, 2025
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Supreme Court chuan Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Science (SHUATS), Prayagraj, Vice Chancellor leh thuneitu dangte’n Kristian sakhuaa mi tam tak an inlehluih tir ang a puhna FIR chu a tih tawp sak lai in, Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 (UP Act,2021) hnuaia  zawm ngai thenkhat chu India danpui kalh a nih theih thu a sawiin ngaihtuah ngun a ngaih thu a sawi.  Supreme Court chuan  India khua leh tui te chu India danpuiin ngaihtuahna, rin leh biak, duh zawng sawi chhuah theihna zalenna min pek laiin  he UP Anti Conversion Law 2021 hian sakhaw danga inlet duh te tan tih tur harsa tak a siam sak a ni a ti.

An buaina bul :
Vishnu Hindu Parishah pawl Vice President in ni 15.4.2022 khan FIR Fatehpur ah Kristian mi 35 leh hriat loh mi 20 te lakah Kristiana inleh luih tirna a puhin  FIR a theh lut a.  Ni 14.4.2022 a Evangelical Church of India mi engemaw zat  (90 bawr vel) Maundry Thursday ti a an sawi ni Kristiana inleh luih tirah an puh a ni. Allahabad High Court ah heng thubuai thiah dilna Kristian lam hian an pu lut a, mahse High Court hian an thu thleh luh hi a lo hnawl sak avangin Supreme Court thlen a ni.
Sakhaw danga inlette nihna pholan chu Fundamental Right (Privacy) nen a inkalh em?
He thubuai ngaihtuahlai hian Justice J.B. Pardiwala leh Justice Manoj Misra te Bench  te chuan court chhungah tawngkamin , UP Act, 2021 hian India Constitution a Part 3-na, a bik takin Article 25 chu a kalh theihna awm a ni tih an sawi a. Court chuan India mi te hian India Danpui hnuaiah hian mahni sakhaw duhzawng zawm theihna te, mimal ngaihtuahna, ngaihdan leh rinna te chu kalpui turin zalenna an neih thu a sawi a ni. Court chuan India Danpui thuhmahruai(Preamble) ah hian ‘sakhaw zalenna’ (Secular) tih hi India Danpui innghahna bulthut pawimawh tak te zing ami a ni a ti a. Tin, Article 25-ah hian mitin te hian mahni sakhaw rinna pawm mai ni loin, an sakhaw rinna pholan phalna dikna chanvo (fundamental right) a pe a ni a ti bawk.
Supreme Court chuan thutlukna lo awm tawh KS Puttaswamy leh Shafin Jahan v. Asokan K.M thubuaia thutlukna te chu a en a. Article 25 chhungah hian mahni nihna humhimna te, mahni chhia leh tha hritatna hman theihna te leh midangte hnena puanzar theihna a kawk tel a ni a ti a. India danpui hian ‘Religion’ (Sakhua) tih tak hi sawifiah lo mahse, Court chuan sakhuana chu mimal emaw vantlang rinna chungchang a nih thu a sawi. Tin, Supreme Court chuan India Danpui hnuaiah hian, India mipuite chuan mahni ngaihtuahna te, rinna te zawm turin zalenna an nei a ti a. He zalenna hi India ram chu sakhaw zalenna ram a ni tih lantirna pawimawh tak a ni a ti bawk.
Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Act, 2021 hi Constitution kalh a nih leh nih loh chungchang hi Supreme Court ngaihtuah turin  Citizen for Justice and Peace leh  Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind thubuaiah te hian thu kal mek a ni a. Tin, Gujarat High Court-ah hian Gujarat Freedom of Religion(Amendment) Act, 2021 hnuaia inneihna dan- mimalin a nupui pasal tur a thlan theihna leh thu pawimawh dangte chuan Article 21 kalh em tih te chu thubuai kal lai mek a ni bawk.

Sakhaw danga inleh hma leh inleh hnua tih tur UP Act, 2021 in a sawi te chu:
UP Act, 2021, Section 8 hnuaiah hian sakhaw danga inleh tum chuan a inleh hma ni 60 chhungin thuneihtute hnenah bumna, tihluihna leh thlemna tel lova sakhaw danga inlet duh a nih thu a sawi tur a ni a. Sakhaw danga inlehtirtu tur pawhin, inlehtir hma thla khatah, thuneihtute hnenah sakhaw danga inlehtirna a nei dawn tih a hriattir tur a ni a. Thuneitute chuan Police te chu endik turin a ti tur a ni a. Sakhaw danga inleh tumte chuan he dan hi an zawm lo a nih chuan, kum 3 thleng lungin tan leh a tlem berah Rs. 10,000/- chawitir theih an ni.
Sakhaw danga a inleh hnu ni 60 chhungin thuneitute hnenah sakhaw dangah a inlet tawh a ni tih hriattir leh tur a ni a, thuneitu te chuan a hriattirna chu notice board ah an lo tar ang a. Hriattirnaah chuan an chenna hmun te, an awmna hmun nghet te, sakhaw inlehnaa an thil tih te leh adangte a an tarlang tur a ni. Sakhaw danga inlette chuan hriattirna an thawn hnu ni 21 chhungin, thuneihtute hnenah an nihna hriattir tur leh an thilsawi chu a dik ngei a ni tih finfiah turin an inlan leh tur a ni bawk. 

(He case WP (Crl) No.123/2023 ah hian Kristiante tan hian  Senior Advocate Siddharth Dav leh AOR Pallavi Sharma an ding a. UP tan Addl Advocate General Garima Prashad dingin India sawrkar tan Attorney General for India R Venkataramani a ding )

               -JC Lalnunsanga, AoR (Supreme Court)