Sreedharan Pillai: Forced conversion in guise of marriage actuality

By Express News Service
KOCHI: Even anti-terror businesses agree that compelled spiritual conversions within the guise of marriage are a actuality within the nation, claimed Mizoram Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai. He was talking after inaugurating a webinar on ‘Welfare State and Effect of Unlawful Conversions on Women’s Rights’ organised by the state unit of Bharatheeya Abhibhashaka Parishad.

Alleging that even the Christian neighborhood was going through this menace, Pillai mentioned it was within the wake of those occasions that many state governments determined to cross anti-conversion legal guidelines. These legal guidelines will defend the ladies who’re the true victims of such marriages, he mentioned, including that although conversion itself was not unlawful, it turns into so when it’s carried out by drive or deceit.

Delivering the keynote handle on the convention, Suman Chauhan, nationwide secretary of the ABAP, demanded that there must be a central legislation regulating spiritual conversions within the identify of marriage. Such conversions have a civil consequence so far as India is worried, she mentioned.