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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.
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.
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A 28-year-old Muslim youth and his five family members, including three women, were booked on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and converting religion of a businessman’s 22-year-old daughter under the Jalesar police station limits in Etah district. This is the ninth such case in the state since November 28 when the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance became a law.