LUCKNOW: As many as 835 circumstances had been registered within the state until July 31 underneath the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Act since its inception in 2020. A complete of 1,682 folks had been arrested in these circumstances.
The commissionerate of Ghaziabad and the districts of Ambedkarnagar, Bhadohi, Saharanpur, and Shahjahanpur have taken most motion in these circumstances.
State DGP Prashant Kumar stated that senior officers are monitoring investigations in all of the circumstances pertaining to unlawful conversions.
“Police officers have been directed to provoke motion based mostly on proof. Those that provide allurement, inducement, and undertake unlawful means for conversion wouldn’t be spared and motion can be taken towards them,” he stated. “We have now filed a cost sheet in virtually 98% circumstances until now, which is about 818 circumstances, whereas 17 circumstances are nonetheless underneath probe,” stated Kumar. Kumar stated that general, 2,708 individuals had been named within the 835 circumstances.
Senior police officers stated that 124 of these whose function was not discovered had been let off. “Seventy others named within the circumstances have surrendered in courtroom,” the officer stated.
“We additionally be sure that no harmless particular person is harassed by the police. All of the circumstances through which prices of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Non secular Conversion have been slapped are being monitored on the headquarters stage,” the DG added.
One other officer stated that until now, conviction has been achieved in 4 circumstances.
“Most of the circumstances are underneath trial and we’re vigorously monitoring such circumstances,” stated the officer. In one among these circumstances, the police additionally connected the properties of Sitapur resident, Zubrail, who was booked underneath the legislation in December final 12 months. The accused, who was declared a proclaimed offender, has been on the run since then. In the meantime, one Afzal was given a sentence of 5 years and imposed a high quality of Rs 40,000 in Amroha.
Speaking about one other case, a senior police officer in Lucknow stated {that a} Muslim lady, who was a resident of Lucknow, had lodged an FIR at Indiranagar police station accusing her husband Ashraf, who can also be head of a shrine in Karnataka, of working a ‘love jihad’ marketing campaign underneath anti-conversion legal guidelines on July 6. She stated that the case was transferred to Bangalore. Just lately, circumstances have additionally come up through which a pair visiting Sitapur together with vacationers from Brazil was booked underneath the legislation for allegedly forcing folks to transform to Christianity.
In the meantime, govt-aided Sam Higginbottom College of Agriculture, Expertise and Sciences (SHUATS) in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, has landed in recent hassle with the Fatehpur police lodging an FIR towards eight of its officers, together with the vice-chancellor and two professional vice-chancellors, for felony conspiracy, and underneath the UP Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith.
