Swetha, a Hindu woman, says she was forcefully confined in a ‘yoga centre’ in Ernakulam for 22 days, where the staff, paid by her family, had one agenda: To force her to abandon her husband, a Christian.

The 28-year-old says that the yoga centre is actually an ‘anti-conversion clinic’ for women who married outside their faith or converted to Christianity or Islam to marry a man of their choice. She says that the staff at the centre subjected her to days of ‘counselling’, asking her to either abandon her husband, or convince him to embrace Hinduism.

She further alleges that there are several more people locked up in the anti-conversion clinic – and one of the inmates she saw there was Athira, a woman who converted back to Hinduism from Islam recently.