PRAYAGRAJ, March 27 -- The Allahabad high court has observed that it is wrong for any person to claim in secular India that a particular religion is the "only true religion", as doing so implies a "disparagement" of other faiths and the same prima facie attracts Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code.

The Allahabad high court made the observation while declining to interfere in criminal proceedings, where a person claimed his religion to be the only true religion.

Justice Saurabh Srivastava dismissed a petition filed by Reverend Father Vineet Vincent Pereira, seeking quashing of criminal proceedings under Section 295A IPC [Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or reli...