FIR against 14 under new law on conversion

A case was registered on Thursday towards 14 individuals below a not too long ago launched Uttar Pradesh legislation to punish pressured spiritual conversions of girls after interfaith marriage, the police stated .

Superintendent of police Sushil Ghule stated the case was registered on the premise of a grievance below the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance-2020 at Chiraiyakot police station in Mau district.

The police stated the complainant alleged that his 30-year-old daughter was kidnapped by an individual he recognized as Shabab Khan aka Rahul for spiritual conversion.

He filed the grievance towards Shabab Khan and 13 of his acquaintances, stating that the marriage of his daughter had been scheduled for November 30 however on the eve of the wedding Khan kidnapped her with the intent of changing her faith. “Three teams have been deployed to arrest all the accused and recover the woman. We will soon get a breakthrough as we have some important clues,” Ghule, the superintendent of police of Mau, stated.

Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel accredited the ordinance promulgated by the state towards pressured and dishonest spiritual conversions on November 28. The first case below the brand new legislation was registered inside hours towards a Muslim man d in Bareilly the identical evening. He was arrested later. The ordinance has provisions to examine spiritual conversions carried out by “allurement, coercion, force, fraud, or marriage.”

The state cupboard cleared the legislation earlier in November, concentrating on what many right-wing outfits time period “love jihad”, which entails Muslim males marrying Hindu girls with the goal of adjusting the latter’s faith after marriage. According to the ordinance, marriages with the intention of altering the girl’s faith might be declared null and void.

Under the provisions of the brand new legislation, the violation has been made a cognizable and non-bailable offence.

The new legislation supplies for a jail time period of as much as 10 years in some instances for violators and treats pressured conversions as a non-bailable offence.