Supreme Court Daily Digest [17 October 2025]
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Rajendra Bihari Lal v. State of Uttar Pradesh 2025 INSC 1249 - UP Conversion Act - Locus Standi Of Complainant
Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 - Sections 3, 4 (Prior to 2024 amendment ) - The words employed by the legislature in the unamended Section 4 of the U.P. Conversion Act are abundantly indicative of the intent of the legislature to only allow a certain specified category of persons to make a complaint for the violation of Section 3 of the said Act. (Para 116) Only the person whose faith is directly in question, or those standing in proximate familial relation, are in a position to determine whether the act of conversion is the result of free volition or whether it bears the taint of coercion, fraud, or allurement. An unrelated third party, having no direct nexus with the individual concerned, is neither competent nor legitimately placed to assess the voluntariness of such a decision (Para 118). To permit the initiation of criminal proceedings at the instance of strangers or unrelated third parties would amount to an impermissible intrusion into this protected sphere of individual freedom and would open the door to frivolous or motivated litigations, thereby diluting the constitutional guarantees of personal liberty and freedom of religion. (Para 117)