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.