Anti-Conversion Laws Are Coming For Political Reasons Than Actual Reasons: Ex-Judge Justice Deepak Gupta | Transcript Of Interview

This is the full transcript of the interview of former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, on the topic of anti-conversion laws. State has no business to know if a person has changed religion Mr. Manu Sebastian : "An important news of this week is the Supreme Court hearing a PIL which seeks to regulate forceful conversion. Many years back, about 2-3 decades ago, the Supreme Court clearly held that Article 25 which gives the right to propagate your religion does not include the right to convert. I only struck down that portion of the Act and the rules which asked a converted to disclose his or her intention to change the religion" Supreme Court has better things to do than to entertain the PIL relating to conversions Mr. Sebastian: "In the present proceedings before the Supreme Court, an interesting aspect of the case history is that the same petitioner had filed the petition before the Supreme Court itself which had come up before Justice Nariman and the bench expressed disinclination to entertain it and it was withdrawn.