A 22 year old man in the state of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl and at the same time made a video in order to pressurise the minor into religious conversion for marriage, reports IANS.
The accused and his father have now been arrested while they were attempting to flee and now been charged with rape and unlawful religious conversion and booked with sections of the POCSO Act.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Vipin Tada said: “The Muslim youth, on January 11, entered the house of a 14-year-old girl and raped her. After this, he made a clip, and exerted pressure on the girl by showing the video clip.
“The girl, on January 13, narrated the incident to her parents. Since the accused were influential, the family members of the girl could not muster the courage to lodge a complaint.”
“The Muslim youth and his father were arrested on Tuesday from near a railway station while they were trying to escape. Both were produced before a local court, which sent them to jail,” the SP said.
According to the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Kotwali police station Vipin Singh the accused allegedly threatened the girl to convert for ‘Nikaah’, Islamic mariage.
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