The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday agreed to consider a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the 2024 amended Uttar Pradesh law on “unlawful religious conversion”, reported news agency PTI.

A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan took note of the submissions of senior lawyer S Muralidhar who said certain provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, as amended last year, were “vague and overly broad” and the ambiguity infringed upon free speech and religious propagation.