The amended law would appear to undermine the commitment to equality before the law enshrined in Indias constitution and Indias obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, to which Indian is a State party, which prohibit discrimination based on racial, ethnic or religious grounds, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said
‘सुधारित कायद्यामुळे भारतीय संविधान आणि आंतरराष्ट्रीय नागरी व राजकीय हक्क नियम आणि वंशभेद निर्मूलन कराराच्या आधीन केलेल्या कायद्याच्या समानतेबद्दलची भारताची वचनबद्धता कमी होते.