The Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition challenging the validity of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025. The plea argues that the new law violates fundamental rights and requires urgent judicial scrutiny to assess its constitutional fairness.
The Supreme Court agreed to take up a petition questioning the validity of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2025.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to both the Rajasthan government and the Centre, seeking their responses.
The bench also listed the matter alongside separate pending petitions challenging the validity of the 2025 Act.
In its plea, the petitioner has sought to declare the Act as “unconstitutional and void”, being ultra vires of Part III of the Constitution.
Earlier, the top court had asked the Rajasthan government and other parties to respond to a separate petition challenging the Act’s validity.
It had issued notice to that petition after the state Assembly passed the law in September.
The Supreme Court is also hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of anti-conversion laws enacted by several states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, and Karnataka.
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