UP Police Stop Muslim Couple s Wedding, Torture Groom Overnight on Love Jihad Rumours
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The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar stopped a Muslim couple’s wedding took them in custody based on a rumour of “love jihad” on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the groom, 39-year-old Haider Ali, has accused the police of torturing him for hours at the Kasya police station in Ahirauli.
Twenty-eight-year-old Shabeela Khatoon and Ali were released the next day after her brother arrived at the police station from Azamgarh and said that the family has no objection to their wedding, the
Indian Express reported. The wedding was finally performed on Wednesday.
‘Love jihad’ rumour: Wedding stopped in UP, Muslim couple kept overnight at police station
The man, 39-year-old Haider Ali, has alleged that the police personnel beat him up with a leather belt and tortured him for hours at the Kasya Police Station. Updated: December 11, 2020 6:54:47 pm
The couple finally got married on Wednesday after the brother of the woman, Shabeela Khatoon, 28, arrived from Azamgarh district and told the police that if she wanted the wedding, the family had no objection.
The police in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, stopped a wedding ceremony on Tuesday and took away the couple following a phone call claiming that a Muslim man was marrying a Hindu woman after converting her, letting them go only the next day after finding that both were Muslims. The man, 39-year-old Haider Ali, has alleged that the police personnel beat him up with a leather belt and tortured him for hours at the Kasya Police Station.