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The Supreme Court of India connected Friday (November 28, 2025) sought effect from the Rajasthan Government connected a plea challenging the validity of the provisions of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025.
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued announcement to the State Government seeking its effect connected the plea filed by the Peoples Union For Civil Liberties and others. The Bench tagged the plea with abstracted pending petitions raising akin issue.
Senior advocator Sanjay Parikh appeared for the petitioners. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Bench that akin matters are pending earlier the apex tribunal and this plea beryllium tagged with them.
The petitioners person sought a declaration that provisions of the Act are "arbitrary, unreasonable, amerciable and ultra vires" the Constitution and besides violative of Articles, including Article 14 (equality earlier law) and Article 21 (protection of beingness and idiosyncratic liberty).
On November 17, 2025, the apical tribunal sought effect from the Rajasthan Government and others connected a abstracted plea challenging the validity of the Act.
The Supreme Court connected November 3, 2025 had agreed to perceive 2 abstracted petitions challenging the validity of respective provisions of the instrumentality against amerciable spiritual conversions that came into unit successful Rajasthan.
In September, different Bench of the Supreme Court sought the basal of respective States connected abstracted pleas seeking a enactment connected their respective anti-conversion laws.
The Supreme Court had past made it wide that it would see the supplication for staying the cognition of specified laws erstwhile the replies were filed.
The Bench was past dealing with a batch of petitions challenging the law validity of anti-conversion laws enacted by respective States, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand and Karnataka.
