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Mohammad Taufeeq was arrested on Sunday for allegedly marrying a 29yearold woman by hiding his religion and then forcing her to convert, Superintendent of Police (SP) Prashant Verma said.

Two people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj district in separate cases under the state’s new anti-conversion law, police said on Monday. Mohammad Taufeeq was arrested on Sunday for allegedly marrying a 29-year-old woman by hiding his religion and then forcing her to convert, Superintendent of Police (SP) Prashant Verma said.

The FIR for the situation was held up in Kannauj on a grumbling from the lady’s dad, he said. In his protest, the dad said that Taufeeq “caught” his girl by concealing his religion and on Saturday, took her to Lucknow. There he unveiled his religion and wedded her, and constrained her to change over, the SP said.

Other than being charged under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, Taufeeq has additionally been reserved under areas relating to cheating and pantomime of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Prashant Verma said. The complainant has claimed that Taufeeq acquainted himself as Rahul Verma with wed his girl, the official said.

In Saraimeera town of the locale, police professed to have captured a man on Friday for supposedly attempting to “trap” a lady without revealing his religion. Ahtesham was gotten by a crowd and gave over to the police. He was reserved under the counterchange law, they said.

Under the law which manages various classes of offenses, a marriage will be proclaimed “invalid and void” if the transformation of a lady is exclusively for that reason, and those wishing to change their religion after marriage need to apply to the area officer. The statute primarily imagines that no individual will change over, either straightforwardly or in a roundabout way starting with one religion then onto the next by use or practice of distortion, power, excessive impact, compulsion, allurement or by any fake methods or by marriage nor will any individual abet, persuade or contrive such transformation.

The onus to demonstrate that the transformation has not been done coercively will lie on the individual blamed for the demonstration and the proselyte, it said.