Muslim Teen Arrested in UP Under Love Jihad Law for Walking Home With a Hindu Friend
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A Muslim teenager from Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor was arrested and has been in jail for a week after a case was filed for ‘love jihad’ under the state’s new ‘anti-conversion’ law after he walked home from a birthday party with his former classmate, a Dalit girl.
The 16-year-old girl has repeatedly and vehemently denied the allegations of ‘love jihad’, and said the boy was a friend of hers. “I have told this to the magistrate, and I will say this again. Those men had a problem with me walking with my friend. They made videos of me and are now calling it love jihad. I did nothing wrong. I went of my own free will,” she told the Indian Express.
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Muslim Youth Booked Under ‘Love Jihad’ Law For Walking Home With A Friend In UP
On December 14, the girl, a Dalit, and her former classmate, a Muslim, were walking back home after a friend’s birthday party Representational Image Outlook Web Bureau 2020-12-25T09:15:43+05:30 Muslim Youth Booked Under ‘Love Jihad’ Law For Walking Home With A Friend In UP outlookindia.com 2020-12-25T09:46:13+05:30
In another case of ‘Love Jihad’, a youth has been booked under the month-old anti-conversion law for walking home with a friend after a birthday party in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor. He has been slapped with charges under sections of the SC/ST Act, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the 16-year-old stands firm.
Bijnor: The boy is in jail after being accused of trying to forcibly convert a Hindu girl
Bijnor:
Two teenagers walking home from a friend s birthday party in Uttar Pradesh s Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of love
jihad under a controversial new anti-conversion law.
The boy, a Muslim, has been in jail for over a week after being accused of trying to forcibly convert the 16-year-old Hindu girl - a charge denied by both the girl and her mother.
The teenager was arrested by the police on December 15 on a complaint purportedly by the father of the girl, who claimed that he had used a false Hindu identity to coax the girl to elope and was trying to force her to convert.
Times of India and
Hindustan Times reported that the girl mentioned during interrogation that the boy had ‘lured’ her by hiding his identity and had tried to coerce her into conversion.
However, according to a recent report by
The Print, both the people involved are minors and the girl’s father denied that his daughter was trying to elope. He also accused the local police of dictating the complaint to him.
The Print also accessed the father’s complaint and according to them, it does not mention sexual assault.
Speaking to
The Print, the girl’s father said, “I told them (police) that she had gone with him for an outing and she made a mistake, but police and then the media made it out to be an episode of elopement.” He also said, “I had told police that I do not want to complain but they scolded me and said they may elope in the future and I must do it for my daughter. I do not understand much of how things work, so I agreed”.