Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill 2021

Subject – Governance

Context – The Karnataka legislative Assembly Thursday passed The Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021

Concept –

The Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021, commonly referred to as the anti-conversion Bill.
It prohibits conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, fraud, allurement or marriage.
It, however, provides an exemption in the case of a person who “reconverts to his immediate previous religion” as “the same shall not be deemed to be a conversion under this Act”.
According to the proposed legislation, complaints regarding conversions can be filed by family members or any other person who is related to the individual who is getting converted.
The offence of conversion has been deemed to be a cognizable and non-bailable, that can be tried in a magistrate’s court under the proposed law.
Any person intending to convert to another religion after the law comes into force will have to notify the district magistrate two months in advance.