How UP’s New Anti-Conversion Legislation Is Being Used To Harass Hindu-Muslim {Couples}

New Delhi/Moradabad:

An TTN investigation into the case of a tender Hindu girl heckled within a police station in Uttar Pradesh by way of Hindutva activists as a result of she had married a Muslim guy has discovered a couple of susceptible hyperlinks within the case and movements towards the couple.

The video of the younger girl being burdened and heckled by way of Bajrang Dal staff, when she went to get her marriage registered on Saturday within the the city of Kanth in western Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district used to be viral.

The girl’s husband and his brother were arrested by way of the police underneath Uttar Pradesh’s new anti-conversion rules, which limit fraudulent and forcible conversions, together with conversion for marriage.

The regulation, which got here into drive within the type of an ordinance on November 28, is noticed as giving felony enamel to the BJP’s fight towards so-called ‘love jihad‘, the unproven conspiracy idea that Hindu girls are being falsely enticed and transformed by way of Muslim males.

The police declare they needed to arrest the boys on account of a criticism filed by way of the lady’s mom, alleging that the 2 males had been seeking to forcibly convert her daughter.

In step with the regulation, any proposal to transform wishes permission from the District Justice of the Peace two months prematurely.

Within the viral video, the Bajrang Dal will also be heard asking her to turn the permission from the District Justice of the Peace to transform.

However the girl advised the media that she had transformed and married on July 24, 4 months ahead of the brand new anti-conversion rules got here into drive within the state.

She mentioned she has been dwelling together with her husband in Kanth, about 30 kilometres from Moradabad, for approximately 3 to 4 months.

“I married him of my very own loose will. I’m an grownup, I am 22,” she mentioned. On Saturday, the couple had long past to the native registrar’s administrative center to get their marriage registered.

Her husband’s circle of relatives shared translated copies in their Nikahnama, or marriage file, which display that the couple were given married on July 24, and that girl used to be a “Nav Muslim” or a “New Muslim” on the time of the Nikah, indicating her conversion on that date.

The First Knowledge Document (FIR) filed by way of the mummy says the woman used to be taken away on December 1, 5 days ahead of the couple had been dropped at the police station and a case used to be filed. But if she spoke to us, she mentioned that they’d been in search of her daughter for over two weeks.

The girl’s mom additionally claims within the FIR that her circle of relatives discovered the couple on how you can a cleric’s position, the place the 2 males had been seeking to get her forcibly transformed.

However to the media, the circle of relatives declare it used to be the Bajrang Dal that discovered the couple, once they had long past to get their marriage registered.

Each the lady’s brother and mom advised us that they had been knowledgeable in regards to the incident by way of the Bajrang Dal, and that they (the Dal) even despatched a automobile for them.

That is borne out by way of the native individuals of the Bajrang Dal.

“On fifth (of December), we were given data {that a} Muslim boy and Hindu lady wish to get married after changing. We went there and located it to be true. So we knowledgeable the police, they usually took motion,” mentioned Chaudhary Monu Bishnoi, the Moradabad district co-convenor, Bajrang Dal.

It’s, alternatively, unclear how the Bajrang Dal came upon in regards to the incident, giving most effective evasive solutions when requested.

“We have now our secret resources. There are staff running in this however they are going to by no means come ahead,” mentioned Bishnoi.

Whilst the police have already arrested two males on this case, regardless of the lady’s claims that she married of her personal loose will, the police are but to behave towards the Bajrang Dal staff noticed heckling a girl.

“We’ve not gotten a criticism in this but. If we get a criticism from the woman or the mummy, we can examine,” mentioned Prabhakar Chaudhary, a senior police officer in Moradabad.

We requested the Bajrang Dal males noticed within the video, whether or not the police had acted towards them.

Bishnoi and Harsh Kumar, a Bajrang Dal employee, either one of whom will also be noticed heckling and wondering the lady within the video, alternatively first denied having requested the lady any questions after which mentioned there was no motion towards them but.