UP Police Stop Muslim Couple s Wedding, Torture Groom Overnight on Love Jihad Rumours
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The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar stopped a Muslim couple’s wedding took them in custody based on a rumour of “love jihad” on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the groom, 39-year-old Haider Ali, has accused the police of torturing him for hours at the Kasya police station in Ahirauli.
Twenty-eight-year-old Shabeela Khatoon and Ali were released the next day after her brother arrived at the police station from Azamgarh and said that the family has no objection to their wedding, the
Indian Express reported. The wedding was finally performed on Wednesday.
Love Jihad rumour: Wedding in UP stopped, couple let off after overnight stay in police station
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Updated: Friday, December 11, 2020, 16:43 [IST]
Lucknow, Dec 11: A wedding ceremony in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh was stopped and the police took away the couple following a phone call claiming that a Muslim man was marrying a Hindu woman after converting her.
The couple who were taken away by the police on Tuesday were let off the next day after it was found that both were Muslims. The couple finally got married on Wednesday after the woman s brother arrived and told the police that if she wanted the wedding then the family had no objection to it.