Madhya Pradesh’s death penalty proposal for forced conversions shuns the judiciary’s principled stand on both capital punishment and conversions
In March, the Madhya Pradesh chief minister proposed to amend MP’s existing anti conversion law to include the death penalty. The proposal not only belittles the high threshold of the rarest of rare doctrine, but also further emboldens the constitutionally contested anti-conversion laws.
Shivam Kumar Singh is a first-year law student at Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur. He has a keen interest in legal research and writing, with a special interest in studying contemporary issues under constitutional law principles.