““If Foreign Funds Are Freely Allowed Inside To Facilitate Conversion Activities, Sovereignty Would Be Imperilled”: Madras High Court”, TheCommuneMag, 08 Oct 2026.

“The Madras High Court, while examining a dispute over registration under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA), has highlighted the risk of foreign funds being used to facilitate religious conversion and observed that such an inflow could imperil the sovereignty of the country, as reported in LiveLaw.

A Division Bench comprising Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice MD Sumathi made the observations while dismissing an appeal filed by Kanzeon Public Charitable Trust, which runs a Montessori School and a Zen Meditation Centre at Kodaikanal.

The trust had challenged the rejection of its application for FCRA registration by the Deputy Director (FCRA), Ministry of Home Affairs. The High Court upheld the rejection, holding that the trust had failed to correctly disclose its religious character.

FCRA And Foreign Funds For Conversion

The Court specifically addressed the issue of foreign funding in the context of religious conversion while examining the safeguards under the FCRA……….”

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