Uttar Pradesh Anti-Conversion Law: Six FIRs Registered In Five Districts; 29 Booked

Within a week of the promulgation of the Anti-Conversion Law, six FIRs have been registered in five districts in Uttar Pradesh. Anti-Conversion Law will check religious conversions carried out by “allurement, coercion, force, fraud, or marriage”. Violation of this new law has been made cognizable and non-bailable offence.

Bareilly has recorded two FIRs. Meanwhile, only one FIR has been registered in each of these districts, Sitapur, Moradabad, Mau and Muzaffarnagar.

Moreover, 10 people out of the 29 have been booked under the law. These 10 people have been arrested in three cases registered in the districts: Sitapur, Bareilly and Moradabad.

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A senior police official said that a total of seven people were arrested in connection with an FIR registered with Tambaur police station of Sitapur district while one arrest was made in the connection with the FIR registered at Devraniya police station of Bareilly. On Friday, Moradabad police arrested a Muslim man and his brother under the new law when he went to the registrar’s office to record his marriage to a Hindu woman.

Sitapur 

The police said that in the Sitapur case, an FIR over the elopement of a 19-year-old girl was registered on November 26 and the provisions of the new ordinance, which came into being two days later, were added later. He further added that the girl’s father had alleged in the FIR that she was abducted by the Muslim man to compel her for marriage.

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Bareilly 

Another officer at the police headquarters added that the first two cases under this law were registered in Bareilly on November 28 and 29.

In the second case in Bareilly, Tahir Hussain and his siblings Sageer and Munna were accused of forceful religious conversion. The complaint was lodged by Tahir Hussain’s wife.

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Mau 

Another FIR was registered against 14 people in Mau district after a woman had reportedly eloped with a Muslim man who was already married to someone else. The FIR was registered against Shabab Khan and 13 others under IPC Sections 366, 506 at Chiraiyakot police station on Tuesday.

Mansoorpur

Yet another FIR was lodged at Mansoorpur police station of Muzaffarnagar district on Thursday wherein two Muslim men were booked for allegedly trying to force a married Hindu woman to convert. They were booked under the Anti-Conversion Law as well as Sections 504 (criminal intimidation), 506 and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

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Khushi Gupta is an intern with SheThePeople.TV