A 22-year-old pregnant woman who was arrested in an alleged ‘Love Jihad’ case in the Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh has denounced torture by the authorities and said she was administered injections at a district hospital that led to her abortion. . The young woman named Pinki was three to four months pregnant when she was arrested by Moradabad police under the forced conversion law for marrying a Muslim.
While being sent to a shelter, her husband and brother-in-law were arrested and sent to jail, allegedly after Bajrang Dal workers complained to the police that their marriage was a “Love Jihad” case. The CJM court in Moradabad on Monday ordered that she be sent back to her father-in-law’s place. They also arrested the police for sending the woman to a shelter and arresting her husband.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Pinki said she was tortured in the foster home, ‘Nari Niketan’, for three days and when her condition deteriorated, she was sent to hospital where doctors gave her injections that eventually took her to a hospital. spontaneous abortion.
“I was tortured in the Nari Niketan for three days, after which I developed abdominal pain. At first they didn’t listen to me but when my condition worsened they took me to the hospital, and then the doctors gave me injections. Once the injections were administered, I started to bleed a lot. Yesterday after my statement in the CJM court, my condition deteriorated once more, “he said, adding that he was given an injection for the first time on December 11, after which he began to bleed slightly.” After two days, they gave me four injections along with some medicine that started to bleed, “he added.
The woman told the court that she was an adult when she married Rashid, a Muslim, according to her own wish. She also asked that her husband and brother-in-law be released soon. “The law helped me a lot, I would like to ask for the release of my husband and brother-in-law as soon as possible. I got married of my own free will on July 24 this year in Dehradun,” she said.
However, the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Child Protection Commission, Dr. Vishesh Gupta, dismissed the allegations of a miscarriage and said that Pinki was transferred to the District Women’s Hospital from the foster home after she complained. of an abdominal stomach and is currently undergoing treatment.
On December 6, Pinki and Rashid were going to register their marriage when Bajrang Dal activists handed her over to the Kanth Police Station police, who then sent the woman to a shelter and arrested her husband and brother-in-law on charges. of forced conversion. At the time, the woman had said that she was 22 years old and had married Rashid five months ago of her own free will. However, the police went on to register a case against the couple, saying that Pinki had no proof of their marriage and that the police were acting on a complaint made by the girl’s mother.
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