{"id":1003530,"date":"2026-04-17T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003530"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:07:27","slug":"tcs-case-supreme-court-moved-plea-seeks-to-classify-forced-religious-conversion-as-terrorist-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/tcs-case-supreme-court-moved-plea-seeks-to-classify-forced-religious-conversion-as-terrorist-act\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS case: Supreme Court moved, plea seeks to classify &#8216;forced religious conversion&#8217; as &#8216;terrorist act&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plea was filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay in the Supreme Court of India on Thursday, following allegations of religious conversion and sexual harassment at a Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) office in Nashik. The petition sought directions to curb deceitful religious conversions. It contended that when such conversions are carried out as part of a systematic, organised, and coercive campaign, they amount to a \u201cterrorist act&#8221;, according to PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The plea comes in response to accusations made by eight female employees at the TCS office in Nashik, who alleged sexual harassment along with claims of forced religious conversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plea was filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay in the Supreme Court of India on Thursday, following allegations of religious conversion and sexual harassment at a Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) office in Nashik. The petition sought directions to curb deceitful religious conversions. It contended that when such conversions are carried out as part of a systematic, organised, and coercive campaign, they amount to a \u201cterrorist act&#8221;, according to PTI. The plea comes in response to accusations made by eight female employees at the TCS office in Nashik, who alleged sexual harassment along with claims of forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}