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VARANASI: Ghazipur police has booked a 17-year-old boy under new anti-conversion law after arresting him for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from another community. The statement of the girl before magistrate will be recorded in this connection on Monday.
Circle Officer, Jamania, Hitendra Krishna, said that on January 21, a girl’s family of a village in Gahmar police station area had lodged a named FIR against a boy of another community alleging that he had kidnapped their minor daughter. After lodging a case of kidnapping under Section 363 of IPC, police started searching the girl, he said. On January 22, the boy was caught and the girl rescued, he added.
India: New law targets interfaith couples
India: New law targets interfaith couples
14th Dec 2020
By Shuriah Niazi
NEW DELHI (AA): Haidar Mansuri, 34, and 28-year-old Shabila Chand [both Muslim] in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh decided to get married after a year-long courtship.
Shabila left her home in Azamgarh to marry Kushinagar resident Haidar.
As they were about to get married on Dec. 8, someone informed the police and members of right-wing Hindu groups Bajrang Dal and Hindu Vahini, and they reached the spot. They alleged that the boy was a Muslim and girl a Hindu, which they claimed was a case of “love jihad”, a term used by right-wing groups alleging Muslim men target Hindu women for conversion to Islam by pretending that they love them.