Hindu groups like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal have often talked about it. Allegations of forced conversions have led to serious confrontation and even violence in tribal-dominated areas. But successive governments have pushed the issue under the carpet. Now the Supreme Court has called forced religious conversions - and conversions through deception and allurement as a danger to security of the country. The SC bench of Justices M R Shah and Hima Kohli asked the Centre to make sincere efforts to check the practice.