In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a 25-year-old tutor named Amaan has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and trying to force his 18-year-old student to convert and marry him, reports The Indian Express.
Members from the Hindu Jagran Manch and Bajrang Dal demanded the police to rescue the kidnapped girl.
The incident occurred on Tuesday (02 February) in Meerut and after the tutor was arrested on Wednesday (03 February) night, the girl was sent to her family after the police had recorded her statement before a magistrate at a court in Meerut.
“Amaan was the woman’s tutor and they had developed a friendship. He had asked the woman to elope with him and marry him after converting to Islam,” police said.
“When she refused, Amaan threatened to kill her younger brother and under pressure, she left her parents’ place in Meerut on Tuesday (02 February) morning and went to Delhi with him,” said in-charge of the police station where the FIR was lodged.
When the daughter went missing the parents lodged a complaint identifying Amaan as the prime suspect and the police lodged the FIR under IPC Section 362 (kidnapping) and traced the victim to a place in the national capital.
“We brought her to Meerut and then arrested Amaan. We have also added the relevant section of the UP anti-conversion ordinance to the FIR after she recorded her statement before the magistrate and alleged that Amaan forced her to convert at a mosque in Delhi,” said the in-charge of the police station.
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