Express News Service
LUCKNOW: Five of a family in the Etah district of Uttar Pradesh were booked under UP anti-conversion law on late Friday evening.
The case was lodged against a 28-year-old Muslim man and his family, including three women, under the Jalesar police station area, on the charges of abduction and converting a 22-year-old woman who is the daughter of a businessman.
This is the ninth such case in the state the promulgation of Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance-2020 which came into being on November 28, this year.
In fact, as per the sources, the woman in question had gone missing on November 17. As per the sources close to her family, she adopted Islam on November 28, the day anti-conversion law promulgated in the state. However, the sources claimed that the conversion happened only after the woman had married the man, Mohammad Javed.