“Supreme Courts Mercy: Grant reprieve to Catholic priest booked under Gujarat’s Anti-Conversion Law for baptizing minor”, Organiser, August 30, 2023:
“The apex court has shown mercy in the case involving the baptism of a minor child by reprieving the Catholic priest. The court has restrained the police from going ahead in this case under the anti-conversion law. The court has made shocking remarks against the police action, saying, “This is a clear misuse of the law”.
Notably, the woman of the minor child is a Christian and the father was a Hindu, the court stated that the child can be baptized as the minor follows the religion of the mother.
As per the reports, the priest who solemnized the ceremony has been accused of forceful religious conversion under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act of 2003. It was reported that the child was baptized without informing the father of the minor….”
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