The stricter anti-conversion bill is passed in Uttarakhand.

Dehradun: Uttarakhand Assembly passed a stricter anti-conversion bill on Wednesday, making unlawful conversion a punishable and non-bailable offence punishable by at least three to a maximum of ten years.It also passed a bill providing 30 per cent horizontal access to women of the state's government functions.Any offender who engages in irresponsible conversion will be punished with a fine of at least Rs 50,000, along with a suspension of up to Rs 5 lakh, according to the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2022.No one shall convert any other person from one religion to another by means of imitation, deception, power, undue influence, coercion, attraction, or any other illicit means, whether directly or otherwise.

“...under articles 25, 26, 27, and 28, the Indian Constitution, under the Right to Religion, provides that, in order to equalize the significance of each faith, the bill, which was introduced in the House on Tuesday, gave rise to the Uttarakhand Public Services (Horizontal Reservation for Women), which gives 30 per cent horizontal access to rural residents of the state.The women in the state are particularly living in impoverished circumstances, which has lowered their living standards relative to those in other states...According to him, the bill seeks to make a 30 per cent horizontal reservation to women of Uttarakhand in state facilities to facilitate social justice, equality of opportunity, improvement in living conditions, gender equality in public transportation, etc.On Tuesday, the assembly passed an appropriation bill containing supplementary demands for grants amounting to Rs 5,440.43 crore tabled in the House for the current fiscal year, which was postponed sine die.