Muzaffarnagar: Two additional people have been book under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance in the Muzaffarnagar area.
As per Station House Officer, K.P. Singh, a case has been filed against Nadeem and Salman, who work as labourers in a factory in Haridwar on Tuesday.
He said that the complainant for the case claimed that Nadeem would visit his place in Haridwar regarding the work and slowly got to know his family, especially his wife.
The SHO said that the complainant alleged that Nadeem, with the assistance of his friend Salman, began pressurizing his wife to marry him after conversion.
At the point when the complainant came to know about it, he moved his family to Mansoorpur, yet Nadeem and his friend kept mounting tension on the woman through phone calls.
The police officer stated that no arrests had been made and a team was being sent for an investigation.
This is the third case to be registered under the ordinance since it was enforced.
The initial case was filed under it against a Muslim man in Bareilly area on Saturday night when a Hindu man of Sharifnagar village accused a Muslim man of pressurizing his daughter to convert to Islam.
The second case under the ordinance was additionally filed in Bareilly on Monday.
The state cabinet had cleared the ordinance in the previous month, focusing on what right-wing groups term as “love jihad”, which includes Muslim men marrying the Hindu women.
As indicated by the law, marriage with the aim of changing a woman’s religion will be announced null and void.
The ordinance basically envisages that no individual will convert, either indirectly or indirectly from one religion to another by the utilization or practice of misrepresentation, undue influence, force, coercion, allurement or by any false methods or by marriage nor shall any individual abet, persuade or conspire such conversion.
