PTI
Gandhinagar, Sep 20: A bill to amend Gujarat's Anti-Conversion Law to allow conversions between different sects of the same faith as well as between Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism was on Tuesday passed in the state Assembly by a voice vote amidst protests by the Opposition Congress.
The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2006 also clarified the meaning of "forced conversion" and to whom the anti-conversion law should apply.
The amendment said: "To convert means to make one person renounce one religion and adopt another; but does not include one who renounces one denomination and adopts another denomination of the same religion."
This implies there would be no government intervention in case of conversion from Shia to Sunni or from Protestant to Catholic.