Advocate Who Facilitated Wedding of Interfaith Couple Alleges Harassment by UP Police
The police are on the lookout for the couple, who have gone into hiding out of fear for their lives.
File photo of Uttar Pradesh policemen standing inside a police station. Photo: Reuters
Rights22/Dec/2020
New Delhi: Mohommed Hashim Ansari, an advocate based in Delhi, says that he is being “harassed” by the UP police for helping a woman who came to him in November voluntarily wanting to convert to Islam. The woman later married a Muslim boy named Javed Ansari who belongs to Jalesar, Eta, Uttar Pradesh â the same district as her.