New Delhi: India on Thursday rejected the most recent report of the US Comm-ission on Worldwide Spiritual Freedom (US-CIRF) that accused India of “extreme violations” of non secular freedom. India referred to as the USCIRF a biased organisation with a political agenda that peddles a motivated narrative about India and suggested the physique to as a substitute give attention to addressing human rights violations within the US.
New Delhi mentioned, “The USCIRF is a biased organisation with a political agenda. It continues to misrepresent information and peddles a motivated narrative about India. We reject this malicious report.”
New Delhi added: “We’d urge USCIRF to desist from such agenda-driven efforts. The USCIRF would even be effectively suggested to utilise its time extra productively on addressing human rights points in the US.”
The USCIRF, which maintains that spiritual freedom is “collapsing” in India, launched an India “nation replace” in its report, claiming that all through this yr, “people have been killed, overwhelmed and lynched by vigilante teams, spiritual leaders have been arbitrarily arrested and houses and locations of worship have been demolished”.
The USCIRF report “described modifications to and enforcement of India’s authorized framework to focus on and disenfranchise spiritual minorities, together with the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA), Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and several other state-level anti-conversion and cow slaughter legal guidelines.”
The USCIRF additionally “really useful that the US division of state designate India as a “nation of explicit concern,” or partaking in systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of non secular freedom”.
India had earlier this yr too slammed the physique which is a US federal authorities entity established by the US Congress.