India, April 18 -- The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash an FIR lodged against two class 12 students accused and booked under the Uttar Pradesh anti-conversion law for allegedly forcing their classmate to wear a burqa and attempting to convert her to Islam.

Dismissing the petition, a bench comprising justices JJ Munir and Tarun Saxena also took note of the 'disturbing trend' of young people 'thrusting' their religion/belief upon others, a tendency sought to be curbed by the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.

"We must be alive to the situation that the Act of 2021 was enacted to curtail an emergent situation in society where certain persons go about not professing or propagating their religion, but thrus...