A Hindu married a Muslim for love. Her parents called the police
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By Sameer Yasir, Emily Schmall and Iqbal Kirmani
July 22, 2021 11.27am
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Srinagar, Kashmir: Manmeet Kour Bali had to defend her marriage in court.
A Sikh by birth, Bali converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man, Shahid Nazir Bhat. Her parents objected to a marriage outside their community and filed a police complaint against her new husband.
Shahid Nazir Bhat, a Muslim, displays a photograph of Manmeet Kour Bali, a Sikh by birth who converted to Islam to marry him, in Srinagar, India.
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“I am 110% sure that I converted on my own will,” said a 28-year-old woman from Jammu and Kashmir. She had converted to Islam from Sikhism this year and married a man of her choice who is also Muslim. “There are lots of rumours about forced conversion but I would like to say that nothing of the sort happened to me,” she said.