PIL in SC seeks directions to check black magic
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 1
A BJP leader has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre and states to take measures against black magic, superstition and forcible religious conversions.
Highlighting incidents of forceful religious conversion by “carrot and stick” and use of black magic “reported every week throughout the country, petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, a Delhi BJP leader and an advocate, pointed out that the Supreme Court had in the Sarla Mudgal case (1995) directed the Centre to ascertain the feasibility of enacting an anti-conversion law.
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