DEHRADUN: A day after Uttarakhand police said they would track down forceful conversion cases in the state, two separate cases were registered against four people under the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act on Friday. In the first case, police booked a man and his two accomplices for allegedly forcefully converting a 26-year-old Muslim woman and her two sons, aged eight & three, to Hinduismand then later forcing her to marry a Hindu man in Dehradun.In another case, cops booked an unidentified person for “influencing a Hindu man on an online platform to convert toIslam and offer namaz”.
The first incident happened in the Nehru Colony area of Dehradun on Thursday.
The first incident happened in the Nehru Colony area of Dehradun on Thursday.
According to the FIR, of which TOI has a copy, the woman was already married. Her husband was in jail with the accused, Rajendra Panwar and she met him when visiting her husband. Panwar was released from jail recently. On June 2, he took the woman and the children to Jogiwala. On June 11, he made the trio convert to Hinduism. He then allegedly forced her to marry him.
