India News | Three Men Booked in Anti-conversion Law in UP's Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad (UP), Jul 8 (PTI) Uttar Police Police has arrested three men under the state's anti-conversion law allegedly for converting a number of people to Islam, an officer said on Saturday.

Mohammad Rahil alias Rahul, 22, Museer, 30, and Abdullah Ahmed alias Saurabh Khurana, 33, were arrested from different places, police in a statement said.

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DCP, Trans Hindan, Vivek Chandra Yadav told reporters that the police had started investigating the matter at the complaint of a man who alleged that one Rahul from her daughter's office had been trying to convert her to Islam.

The man in his complaint filed with Khoda Police said that his daughter had all of a sudden started following Islamic rituals and was on the verge of adopting Islam.

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During interrogation, police found that Rahul had converted to Islam in 2017 and since then had been using his "lover boy image to lure Hindu girls," Yadav said.

The DCP said Rahul married the purported victim online, even though he had already done 'nikah' with the sister-in-law of Abdullah Ahmed alias Saurabh Khurana, who was also a convert like him.

Abdullah had converted to Islam while doing his BDS from the Aligarh Muslim University in 2014 and had converted a few other boys who had come in his contact, he said.

The DCP said the three were booked in Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act.

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