Two brothers arrested in Moradabad over interfaith marriage
December 6, 2020 8:56:19 pm
Kanth station space officer Ajay Gautam mentioned the 2 males had been arrested Friday at the foundation of a grievance by way of the girl’s folks. (Representational symbol)
Police arrested a Muslim guy and his brother underneath Uttar Pradesh’s new anti-conversion regulation when he visited the registrar’s place of work to report his marriage to a Hindu girl. A video clip purportedly confirmed Bajrang Dal activists asking the couple if the girl had given realize to the native district Justice of the Peace over her goal to modify her faith, a demand underneath the brand new UP ordinance.
Kanth station space officer Ajay Gautam mentioned the 2 males had been arrested Friday at the foundation of a grievance by way of the girl’s folks. The lady mentioned she is an grownup and married the person a couple of months in the past of her loose will. It used to be no longer straight away recognized whether or not she additionally modified her faith.
In line with stories, Moradabad guy Rashid had met the girl from Bijnore when he used to be running in Dehradun the place she used to be finding out. Police reached the registrar’s place of work after being approached by way of Bajrang Dal activists. The 2 males had been then produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace and despatched to jail.
SHO Kanth mentioned it used to be now as much as the court docket to come to a decision the case. The lately promulgated Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Ordinance, 2020 nullifies marriages if they’re performed for the only function of non secular conversion.
The punishment can lengthen as much as 10 years if a minor is concerned. In fresh instances, police in UP have arrested seven other folks in Sitapur and stopped an interfaith marriage in Lucknow, bringing up the brand new regulation to test forcible and fraudulent conversions.
Although the time period doesn’t determine within the ordinance, it used to be promulgated amid assertions by way of BJP leaders {that a} strict regulation used to be wanted towards love jihad, a connection with right-wing claims that Hindu girls are being lured or pressured into marriages carried out just for their conversion.
