Madras HC sustains plea directing TN govt to frame guidelines to prevent religious conversion in schools
India Today
The Madras High Court has sustained a plea directing the TN government to frame guidelines to prevent forced religious conversion in schools. The court asked the state government to file its counter affidavit regarding this within 4 weeks.
The Madras High Court, on Friday, May 6, sustained a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) directing the state government to frame guidelines to prevent forced religious conversion in schools.
The bench of Justices R Mahadevan and S Ananthi, while hearing a plea seeking to direct the Tamil Nadu government to frame guidelines to prevent forced religious conversion, said that they were convinced with the plea.
So, the court has asked the state government to file its counter affidavit within 4 weeks. Yesterday, while hearing the case, the court asked what was the harm in directing the government to frame guidelines to prevent religious conversion in schools.
There have been multiple cases of forced conversion attempts that have recently emerged in Tamil Nadu.
The plea was filed by a Chennai-based advocate called B Jagannath. He had cited the recent case in Thanjavur as the basis of his plea.
A Class 12 student was allegedly forced to clean rooms in her hostel in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur and forced to take up Christianity. She was admitted to a hospital after she tried to kill herself. She died on Wednesday, January 19, after not responding to treatment.
Later, a video emerged, in which the girl confessed that she was constantly scolded and also made to clean all the rooms in the hostel by the hostel warden. The girl alleged that she was also constantly forced to take up Christianity.
