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<b>There's no fundamental right to convert:  SC</b>
NEW DELHI: <b>The Vatican's stand that the fundamental right to  practice and  propagate religion includes the right to convert was an issue  considered and  rejected by the Supreme Court. </b>

In a 1977 judgement in the  Rev Stanislaus versus the State of Madhya  Pradesh, the court had upheld the  constitutional validity of  conversion-prohibiting laws enacted by Madhya Pradesh  and Orissa.

The two states, which were then controlled by the Congress,  had passed  anti-conversion laws in 1967 and 1968, respectively. <b>What the  Constitution  grants is not the right to convert another person to one's own  religion, but to  transmit or spread one's religion by an exposition of its  tenets,  the  court had ruled.</b>

According to the SC, <b>organised conversion, whether by force or fraud or by  providing help or allurement to persons, taking  undue advantage of their poverty and ignorance, is anti- secular.  </b>


The court had said respect for all religions was the essence of our  secularism, <b>whereas religious intolerance constituted the basis of planned  conversion</b>. Given this, conversion cannot be a secular activity.

Besides  Orissa and MP, three other states have anti-conversion law in the statute. They  include Chhattisgarh  which retained the law after the bifurcation Arunachal  Pradesh and Gujarat.

Tamil Nadu, too, had passed a law in 2002, but  repealed it when the AIADMK succeeded in projecting the law as one aimed at  minorities in the state.
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