"Citizens entitled to propagate religion": Bombay High Court quashes Section 144 order against Christian couple accused of conversion

The Court held that the petitioners were within their rights to propagate their own religion and to profess it in any manner they please, more so, when it was within their own private property.
Justices Mahesh Sonak and Valmiki SA Menezes, Bombay High Court (Goa bench)
Justices Mahesh Sonak and Valmiki SA Menezes, Bombay High Court (Goa bench)
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Invoking Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) against individuals conducting religious activities on their property would infringe upon their fundamental right to practice, profess and propagate religion, the Bombay High Court at Goa held on Friday [Joan Mascarenhas E D'Souza v. State of Goa].

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