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RAJKOT: A 30-year-old garage owner in Dhoraji town of Rajkot district was booked under the amended Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act after a woman lodged a complaint against him in Dhoraji town.
An FIR was lodged against Mohammed alias Dado Gani Sami (30), a resident of Radhanagar area of Dhoraji town on Sunday late night for allegedly raping the woman and forcing to convert her religion. The woman told police that she had been in contact with Sami for the last one-and-a-half year. He sent her some religoius verses on Instagram and forced her into marriage. He allegedly asked her to accompany him to a maulvi to perform the formal ceremony to convert into Islam but as she did not want to change her faith, she approached the police, a senior official said.