Four people arrested in connection with the first case filed in Gujarat under the amended law against forced religious conversions through ...
Four people arrested in connection with the first case filed in Gujarat under the amended law against forced religious conversions through marriage were granted bail on Wednesday, reported PTI.
The case was registered in June against 26-year-old Samir Qureshi in Vadodara for allegedly using a fake Christian identity to speak to a woman on social media and forcing her to marry him.
The woman had also alleged in a police complaint that the man raped her multiple times and threatened to leak her private photos. The man’s parents, sister and uncle also allegedly helped him in the crime.
Eight people, including Qureshi’s parents, uncle, sister and cousin, were named in the First Information Report filed in the case.
Apart from the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2021, the accused were also charged under sections of the Indian Penal Code that pertain to domestic violence, rape and criminal intimidation.
However, in July, a month after the FIR was filed, the woman claimed that she and the Qureshi got married in a Muslim ceremony in February with the consent of both their families, Deccan Herald reported.
The woman and the accused persons then moved the Gujarat High Court, asking for the FIR to be quashed. The woman told the court that her complaint was...
