There will be life imprisonment for ‘love jihad’ in UP, Yogi government will present bill tomorrow

The Yogi government of UP has now decided to take strict action against ‘love jihad’. Such crimes will now be punishable with life imprisonment. The Yogi government can present a bill related to this in the assembly tomorrow i.e. on July 30. Along with this, the punishment for many crimes has been doubled in this bill. New crimes have also been included under love jihad. In this bill, there is a preparation to bring funding for illegal religious conversion under the ambit of crime under the law.

Till now there was a provision for 10 years of punishment

The UP government had earlier passed the Religious Conversion Prohibition Bill 2021 in the Assembly. This bill had a provision of punishment ranging from 1 to 10 years. Under this bill, religious conversion done only for marriage will be invalid. Religious conversion by lying or cheating will be considered a crime. In case of voluntary religious conversion, the magistrate will have to be informed 2 months in advance. According to the bill, there was a provision of 1-5 years imprisonment with a fine of Rs 15,000 for forced or fraudulent religious conversion. If this happens to a Dalit girl, then there was a provision of 3-10 years imprisonment with a fine of Rs 25,000.

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Let us tell you that the Central Government has already said that making a law on religious conversion is a matter of the state governments and it is up to the state governments to decide this.