14 arrested in Etah, 3 in Azamgarh under UP s anti-conversion law
Wed, Dec 23 2020 12:19:41 PM
Lucknow, Dec 23 (IANS): The Uttar Pradesh police is working strictly under the newly formulated anti-conversion law. They have arrested over a dozen for converting a woman to Islam and three for trying to convince people to accept Christianity.
In Etah, the police arrested eight people on the charge of forcible conversion of a 21-year-old girl and then getting her married.
In Azamgarh, three other people were arrested under the new state law.
The case under the new anti-conversion law was filed on Thursday in Jalesar in Etah on the basis of a complaint filed by the woman s father, a businessman.
Updated Dec 23, 2020 · 03:41 pm A file photo of protest against love jihad in Ahmedabad in 2018. | Sam Panthaky/AFP
The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district have arrested 14 members of a Muslim man’s family under the new ordinance against unlawful conversions,
The Times of India reported on Wednesday. Mohammad Javed, who is on the run, is accused of kidnapping and unlawfully converting a Hindu woman to Islam.
A first information report was filed at Etah’s Jalesar police station on the basis of a complaint by the woman’s father on December 17. The father, who is a local businessman, allegedly received a letter from Javed’s lawyer in Delhi, informing him about his daughter’s conversion and marriage.
UP Police Arrest 17 People In Etah, Azamgarh Under State s Newly Formulated Anti-Conversion Law
Women hold placards and form a human chain to protest against love
jihad and conversion to Islam. (Original picture by Mujeeb Faruqui/Hindustan Times via GettyImages)
The Uttar Pradesh police is working strictly under the newly formulated anti-conversion law. They have arrested over dozen for converting a woman to Islam and three for trying to convince people to accept Christianity.
In Etah, the police arrested eight people on the charge of forcible conversion of a 21-year-old girl and then getting her married.
In Azamgarh, three other people were arrested under the new state law.