Overview
- The Ladakh Buddhist Association wrote to the Union home minister seeking a territory-specific anti-conversion law, calling it essential for communal harmony in the border region.
- The Zanskar Buddhist Association reported the alleged abduction of a Buddhist girl and asked the local sub-divisional magistrate to trace her while also urging an anti-conversion or anti-‘love jihad’ statute.
- Petitioners allege conversions through inducement, misrepresentation, allurement and marriage targeting economically vulnerable people.
- The groups warn of risks to peace, development, tourism and security in a region with a delicate demographic balance, citing the 2011 Census profile of Ladakh.
- They reference anti-conversion laws in several Indian states and point to the Special Marriage Act as a secular route for interfaith unions, while no government response or independent verification is reported.