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The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that individuals do not require permission from authorities to organise religious prayer meetings at their homes if there is no violation of law. The High Court directed the state government authorities not to interfere with a person's civil rights while allowing the petitioners to hold prayer meetings on their residential premises. The petitioners in the case are residents of Godhna village in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir-Champa district. The petitioners had all
Itanagar, Jun 7 (PTI) The flood situation in Arunachal Pradesh improved on Saturday with water levels of most rivers receding, even as 33,000 people in 24 districts remained affected, officials said. Twelve people lost their lives and one person went missing in rain-related incidents, including landslides, after the monsoon set in, they said. In its daily report, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said 33,200 people in 215 villages remained affected due to floods and landslides in the state. The water levels of most major rivers and their tributaries were showing a receding trend o ...Read More >
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh High Court on Wednesday ruled that individuals do not require prior permission from authorities to conduct prayer meetings within their private residences. The Court further clarified that no law exists in the state that restrains citizens from organising such spiritual gatherings in their own dwelling houses. The ruling came during the hearing of a writ petition filed by Badri Prasad Sahu and Rajkumar Sahu, both residents of Godhna village in Janjgir-Champa district. The petitioners, who are relatives and recorded landowners, had constructed a hall on the first flo ...Read More >
Raipur, Jun 7 (PTI) Veteran tribal leader from Chhattisgarh and former Union minister Arvind Netam on Saturday said the Congress should clarify its stance on religious conversion. Netam said he suspects that Chhattisgarh Congress chief Deepak Baij, a tribal leader from the Bastar region, has embraced Christianity. He was talking to reporters in Raipur, two days after attending the concluding ceremony of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's training camp 'Karyakarta Vikas Varg-Dwitiya' in Nagpur as the chief guest. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat also attended the event. Netam, a prominent tribal leader fr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 20 (PTI) Parents and friends of a Class 10 student who ended his life over alleged mental harassment by some teachers staged a protest outside the St Columba's school on Thursday, demanding strict action against the accused teachers and accountability from the private school. There was no immediate reaction from the school administration to the allegations. The victim student's aunt claimed the family had been unaware of the extent of his suffering. "He was depressed for so long. He kept complaining, but we stayed quiet because he was in Class 10. He even told his school coun ...Read More >
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh high court has held that no permission is needed to hold prayer meetings at home, provided law is not violated. Delivering the judgment in a case related to police notices issued to two residents in Janjgir- Champa in Chhattisgarh refraining from organizing Christian prayer meetings inside their house, the single bench of Justice Naresh Kumar Chandravanshi observed that they are the registered owners of the property and thus cannot be prevented from holding prayer meetings. "There is no such law restraining any person from organizing prayer/ prayer meetings in their ...Read More >
Bilaspur: The High Court here on Tuesday quashed police notices issued to two petitioners from Godhana village in Janjgir-Champa district and directed authorities not to interfere in their civil rights. The case pertained to two relatives who had been organising Christian prayer meetings at their residence since 2016. According to the petitioners, the gatherings were peaceful and did not cause any disturbance or involve unlawful activity. However, local police had issued multiple notices under Section 94 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, asking them to stop holding such ...Read More >
Raipur: No prior permission is required to organise religious prayer meetings at homes, provided no law is violated, the Chhattisgarh High Court ruled. A single bench of Justice Naresh Kumar Chandravanshi made the observation while quashing notices issued by the police to two petitioners, and directed authorities not to interfere with their civil rights. The case pertains to two relatives from Godhna village under Nawagarh police station limits in Janjgir-Champa district. The petitioners had been organising prayer meetings for Christian followers in a hall on the first floor of their residen ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will enact a strict law to curb cases of religious conversion and also demolish unauthorised churches that have come up across the state, especially in tribal districts, in the next six months, revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said in the state assembly on Wednesday. The announcement was made after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs Anup Agrawal, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Sanjay Kute, and Gopichand Padalkar alleged that tribals were being converted to Christianity through illegal churches built using foreign funding for the promotion of the religion. They ...Read More >