New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- An intervention application has been filed in the Supreme Court urging it to be heard during the hearing of petitions challenging controversial state laws regulating religious conversions due to interfaith marriage.

Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti filed the application seeking to intervene in the petitions, in public interest, and for the limited purpose of assisting the apex court on issues arising from challenges to state freedom of religion/unlawful conversion enactments, including the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, which are under challenge in the proceedings.

The application filed through advocate Atulesh Kumar requested the court to decline to entertain the challenge to the ...