FIROZABAD(UP):Three residents of Uttar Prades's Firozabad district have been arrested in Gujarat on charges of trying to convert a 15-year-old girl and marrying her.
The girl's father, a resident of Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh, runs a canteen in Bharuch in Gujarat, and one of the accused, Salim, was an employee there.
Firozabad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Ashok Kumar said: "The accused Salim brought the girl to Firozabad in the name of treatment and changed her Hindu name to a Muslim one. Salim, aged 21 years married the minor girl, aged 15 years."
He said the girl's father reached FirozFIROZABAD(UP):Three residents of Uttar Prades's Firozabad district have been arrested in Gujarat on charges of trying to convert a 15-year-old girl and marrying her.
The girl's father, a resident of Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh, runs a canteen in Bharuch in Gujarat, and one of the accused, Salim, was an employee there.abad and lodged a complaint after Salim did not return.
Police collected information and found that Salim, along with his father Abdul Gaffar and brother-in-law Rahman, were in Bharuch.
"The case was registered under relevant IPC sections and as the girl was a minor, the accused have been booked under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, besides the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, " the SSP said.
"All three of the accused were presented before a magistrate and sent to jail on Sunday."