JUDGMENT :

MANJU RANI CHAUHAN, J.

1. Both anticipatory bail applications have been moved for grant of anticipatory bail in Case Crime No. 224 of 2022, under Sections 153-A, 506, 420, 467, 468, 471 Indian Penal Code, 1860 [IPC] and 3 and 5(1) U.P. Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 3 of 2021) [the Act 2021], Police Station Kotwali, District Fatehpur.

2. Instant case, as the prosecution version surfaces, is; a first information report [The FIR] was lodged by the informant-Himanshu Dixit with the allegations that about 90 persons of Hindu religion have been congregated at Evangelical Church of India, Hariharganj, Fatehpur for the purpose of their conversion to Christianity by putting them under undue influence, coercion and luring them by playing fraud and promise of easy money etc.; on receiving this information, the Government officers reached the place and interrogated the pastor Vijay Massiah; he disclosed that the process for conversion was going on for the last 34 days and that this process shall be completed within 40 days; that they have been trying to convert even the patients admitted to the Mission Hospital and the employees have played an a