Uttar Pradesh Police Makes First Arrest Underneath New Anti-Conversion Regulation
The first case beneath the brand new anti-conversion regulation used to be registered in UP’s Bareilly (Representational)
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh:
The Uttar Pradesh Police has made its first arrest beneath the brand new anti-conversion regulation, days after a person complained that somebody is harassing his daughter in a bid to modify her faith, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on November 28 had given assent to the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Ordinance, 2020, in opposition to forcible or fraudulent spiritual conversions.
The regulation supplies for imprisonment of as much as 10 years and a most effective of Rs 50,000 beneath other classes.
“That is the primary arrest beneath the brand new regulation. Accused Owais Ahmad used to be arrested from the Richha railway gate within the Bahedi space right here on Wednesday. He used to be produced sooner than a neighborhood court docket and used to be despatched to 14 days judicial custody,” Deputy Inspector Basic (DIG) of Police, Bareilly, Rajesh Kumar Pandey mentioned.
The case used to be registered on the Devarniya police station in Bareilly district on November 28 in opposition to Owais Ahmad, officers mentioned, including that it used to be the primary case to be registered within the state beneath the brand new regulation.
In keeping with a grievance from Tikaram, a resident of Sharif Nagar village in Devarniya, the case used to be registered beneath sections of the Indian Penal Code and the anti-conversion regulation.
The complainant has accused Ahmad, a resident of the similar village, of looking to convert his daughter thru “allurement”, police mentioned.
In step with the grievance, Tikaram’s daughter and Ahmed studied in combination in Elegance 12.
3 years in the past, the accused began pressuring her to go through spiritual conversion and carry out ‘nikaah’ (marriage) with him, in keeping with the grievance.
But if the girl hostile, he threatened to kidnap her, Tikaram has mentioned in his grievance.
The complainant’s daughter married somebody else in June. Alternatively, Ahmed persevered to bother her and her members of the family, he has alleged.
Underneath the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Ordinance, 2020, which offers with other classes of offences, a wedding will probably be declared “null and void” if the conversion of a lady is just for that function, and the ones wishing to modify their faith after marriage want to practice to the district Justice of the Peace.
The regulation used to be introduced into impact 4 days after the Yogi Adityanath govt within the state licensed the draft of the law which additionally curbs spiritual conversions just for the sake of marriage.
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