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VARANASI: Ghazipur police has booked a 17-year-old boy under new anti-conversion law after arresting him for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from another community. The statement of the girl before magistrate will be recorded in this connection on Monday.
Circle Officer, Jamania, Hitendra Krishna, said that on January 21, a girl’s family of a village in Gahmar police station area had lodged a named FIR against a boy of another community alleging that he had kidnapped their minor daughter. After lodging a case of kidnapping under Section 363 of IPC, police started searching the girl, he said. "On January 22, the boy was caught and the girl rescued," he added.