PATNA, Feb. 28 -- The Bihar assembly on Friday witnessed noisy scenes over the demand by the ruling party MLAs to bring a strict anti-conversion law in the state on the lines of other states to prohibit forced religious conversions and forced inter-faith marriages. Following this, Assembly Speaker Prem Kumar gave a ruling that the state government would review anti-conversion laws of other states and "if required, would implement it in the state as well".

"The Bihar government will certainly review anti-conversion laws of other states that prohibit forced religious conversion and forced inter-faith marriage and if required, the same law will be implemented in this state as well," the Speaker said.

The issue came up during a call attenti...