Gujarat Governor gives assent to Bill that penalises fraudulent conversion by marriage
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With this, the Governor has authorized all of the 15 Bills that had been handed through the Budget session of the Assembly as he had earlier cleared seven different Bills, he added.
Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat has given his assent to an modification Bill, which supplies for a jail sentence of up to ten years for fraudulent or forcible conversion by marriage, a State Minister mentioned on Saturday.
The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was handed by the State Legislative Assembly on April 1 this yr, has been authorized by the Governor together with seven different Bills, State Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama mentioned in a press release.
With this, the Governor has authorized all of the 15 Bills that had been handed through the Budget session of the Assembly as he had earlier cleared seven different Bills, he added.
As per the amended Freedom of Religion Bill, a forcible “conversion by marriage, or by getting a person married, or by aiding a person to get married” shall invite imprisonment of three to 5 years and a fantastic of up to ₹2 lakh.
If the sufferer is a minor, girl, Dalit or tribal, the offender could also be punished with a jail time period of 4 to seven years and a fantastic of not lower than ₹3 lakh. If an organisation violates the legislation, the individual in cost will be sentenced to minimal of three years and most of ten years in jail.
During a ballot rally in Vadodara on February 14 this yr, State Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had mentioned his authorities would deliver a strict legislation towards ‘love jihad’ within the State.
“We are going to bring a law against love jihad in the Assembly. Such activities being done in the name of love jihad will not be tolerated…The BJP government will bring strict laws against love jihad in the coming days,” he had introduced.
Before Gujarat, BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh had additionally enacted comparable legal guidelines banning “fraudulent” conversions by means of marriage.
Other Bills that had been authorized by the Governor embody Gujarat Professional Medical Education Colleges or Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fees) (Amendment) Bill; Gujarat Panchayats (Amendment) Bill; Gujarat Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provision for Protection of tenants from Eviction from Premises within the Disturbed Areas (Amendment) Bill; Gujarat Private Universities (Amendment) Bill; Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill; (3) Gujarat Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill; and the CrPC (Gujarat Amendment) Bill.
Through the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill, 2021, non secular and linguistic minority establishments are required to recruit lecturers who’ve certified Teacher Aptitude Test (TAT) performed by the State Education Board.
The Gujarat Professional Medical Education Colleges or Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fees) (Amendment) Bill requires unaided schools or establishments within the disciplines of Ayurveda, Homeopathy, and Naturopathy to fill in 15% of presidency seats on the premise of a advantage checklist ready by the Central authorities authority.
The Code of Criminal Procedure (Gujarat Amendment) Bill amends Section 195 of the CrPC for instances of violation of notifications beneath Section 144 of the CrPC. Also, with the Gujarat Panchayats (Amendment) Bill, the Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board (GPSSB) is empowered to perform recruitment of all cadres of panchayat service class-III in a centralised method “to bring uniformity in direct recruitment.”
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