The Supreme Court of India, on Feb. 2, issued notices to the government of India and 12 states on a fresh public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), challenging the constitutional validity of the state-level anti-conversion laws. The states whose anti-conversion laws are being challenged are Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, and Rajasthan.