Seven folks have been booked within the first case registered in Gujarat underneath the newly amended Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021, which gives for harsh punitive motion for compelled conversion via marriage.
In a criticism lodged with the Gotri police station in Vadodara, the sufferer has alleged that the principle accused, 26-year-old Sameer Qureshi, who owns a mutton store, launched himself as Sam Martin on a social networking website in 2018 and known as him Seduced and introduced To have a bodily relationship by promising her “modern life” after marriage.
The Vadodara police stated that the accused within the case embrace Sameer Qureshi’s father Abdul Qureshi, mom Farida and sister Rukhsar together with an uncle named Altaf Chauhan and one other accused named Maher Malik.
According to the sufferer’s criticism, Qureshi allegedly raped a co-accused Maher Malik on 4 events on the Pyramid Hotel in Vadodara, close to a preferred eatery in Curzon on National Highway 8 in addition to within the flat of a co-accused Maher Malik . metropolis, police stated.
“Qureshi allegedly blackmailed the victim that he would make her nude pictures public and forced her to commit his antics on several occasions. During that time, the victim came to know that she was about eight weeks pregnant and the accused forced her to take abortion pills. The victim had her second pregnancy which was aborted at 21 weeks at a clinic against her will,” the FIR states.
The FIR additional states that Qureshi forcibly took the sufferer to the Gosia Masjid in Kalyannagar, the place he compelled her to transform to Islam and marry her. Jairajsinh Vala stated on Friday that he modified his identify to Suhanabanu, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 2.
The sufferer, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste, additionally alleged that Qureshi and his household hurled casteist abuses at her when she refused to apply Islam. “The accused and his household in addition to an maternal uncle used casteist slurs in opposition to the sufferer due to her caste.
Recently, the person introduced dwelling to marry one other girl and started torturing her to depart. Police Inspector SV Choudhary of Gotri police station stated that the accused repeatedly threatened to kill the sufferer’s household if he refused.
The police have registered a case of home violence, raping a lady a number of occasions underneath part 498A of the Indian Penal Code. [376(2)(n)], unnatural intercourse (377), voluntarily inflicting a lady with a toddler to an abortion in opposition to her will (312, 313), knowingly abetting to disturb the general public peace (504), prison intimidation [506(2)]prison conspiracy prison [120(b)] Also part 4 of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2021, for forcible conversion by inducement and fraudulent marriage, and varied sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
