According to Fatehpur police, the 26-year-old truck driver was arrested on Sunday for changing his spouse and beating her up.
Police stated accused Vijay Sonkar had transformed to Islam about two years in the past. Police stated since his conversion, Vijay was pressurizing his dad and mom, spouse Poonam Devi and youthful sister Janki Devi (18), to transform to Islam.
Poonam visited the Khakhreru police station on Saturday and knowledgeable the police that Vijay needed him to learn the Hindi model of the Quran bought by her.
Vijay lives in Delhi and usually goes dwelling to Purmai village in Fatehpur. He returned to Fatehpur on Friday.
“The pregnant Poonam Devi claimed that when she refused to read the Quran and convert to Islam, Vijay started beating her. Vijay also threatens to leave her and stop giving the money. She also claimed that Vijay threatened her that she would never return home if she did not convert to Islam,” stated Khakhreru station home officer Virender Singh Yadav. Vijay and Poonam obtained married in 2016 and have a three-year-old daughter collectively.
Acting on the grievance, the police booked Vijay beneath IPC sections 295-A (intentional and malicious act meant to outrage non secular emotions of any class by insult to his faith or non secular beliefs), 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage). and filed an FIR beneath 506 (legal). Threat). Anti-conversion regulation has additionally been imposed in opposition to him.
Police stated Vijay was arrested from close to his home on Sunday and later produced earlier than a neighborhood courtroom, which remanded him to judicial custody.
The SHO stated Vijay’s father Jagmohan advised the police that the accused threatened to marry off his sister to a Muslim man.
“During interrogation, Vijay told the police that his family lived in Haldwani in Uttarakhand before moving to Fatehpur a year ago. Vijay claimed that he had converted to Islam in Haldwani after persuading his friend, who is also a truck driver,” the SHO stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
