Penal Code 157 Causing, etc., disharmony, disunity, or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will, or prejudicing, etc., the maintenance of harmony or unity, on grounds of religion 298a.  (1) Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or by any act, activity or conduct, or by organizing, promoting or arranging, or assisting in organizing, promoting or arranging, any activity, or otherwise in any other manner— (a) causes, or attempts to cause, or is likely to cause disharmony, disunity, or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will; or (b) prejudices, or attempts to prejudice, or is likely to prejudice, the maintenance of harmony or unity, on grounds of religion, between persons or groups of persons professing the same or different religions, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than two years and not more than five years. (2) Sections 173a and 294 of the Criminal Procedure Code shall not apply in respect of an offence under subsection (1). (3) Where any person alleges or imputes in any manner specified in subsection (1)— (a) that any other person, or any class, group or description of persons, professing any particular religion— (i) has ceased to profess that religion; (ii) should not be accepted, or cannot be accepted, as professing that religion; or (iii) does not believe, follow, profess, or belong to, that religion; or (b) that anything lawfully done by any religious official appointed, or by any religious authority established, constituted or appointed, by or under any written law, in the exercise of any power, or in the discharge of any duty, or in the performance of any function, of a religious