The case is the fifth to be filed in UP since the anti-conversion ordinance became law last week. Moradabad: A Muslim man and his brother were arrested by police in Moradabad, western Uttar Pradesh, after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to register their marriage in the Kanth district. …
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Existing laws are sufficient to address the problem, Mayawati said. Lucknow: BSP Chairman Mayawati on Monday called on the Uttar Pradesh BJP government to reconsider its new anti-religious conversion ordinance apparently aimed at curbing cases of “loving jihad.” The law became enforceable in the state last Saturday and a case …
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BAREILLY: Hours after the UP ordinance against “forced” religious conversion went into effect, a 22-year-old man from Bareilly He was booked for “threatening to kidnap” and convert a 20-year-old woman, a girl he knew from school who is now married to someone else. The FIR was presented on the basis …
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The ordinance approved on Saturday provides up to 10 years in prison for “love jihad.” Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh police have filed their first case under the new state anti-conversion law, accusing a Muslim of pressuring a woman to change her religion. The case was reported Saturday at the Deorania Police …
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(Representative image: Reuters) On Saturday, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Anandiben Patel, gave his consent to an ordinance against forced or fraudulent religious conversions that provides for prison terms of up to 10 years and a maximum fine of 50,000 rupees in different categories. PTI New Delhi Last update: November …
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BAREILLY: Uttar PradeshThe first case reported under the newly enacted Illegal religious conversion law has been registered against a 22-year-old college student in Deorania Police Station in Bareilly district late on Saturday. The young man had been forcing a 20-year-old interfaith married woman to change her. religion and start living …
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