Bulandshahr Police has determined to take motion in opposition to a Dalit man who falsely registered a case below the Anti-Conversion Act.
Police mentioned the 46-year-old had lodged an FIR on Thursday alleging that his minor nephew, who went lacking for the second time in a month, was transformed to Islam by a gaggle of “unknown people”. .
The police of their investigation, nevertheless, traced the boy to his aunt’s home in Jalandhar. The boy, who lived together with his uncle after the demise of his mother and father seven years in the past, denied that he had transformed to Islam and advised police that he ran away from his uncle’s home as he used to go to him recurrently. harassed and killed.
“We traced the boy to his relative’s house in Punjab’s Jalandhar. In his statement to the police, he denied converting to Islam and said that he had left the house after beating up his uncle. He also accused his uncle of harassing him to take his share in the ancestral property of eight bighas of land,” mentioned Santosh Kumar Singh, SSP (Bulandshahr).
On Friday, the police recorded the assertion of the boy earlier than the Justice of the Peace. Police mentioned that throughout the medical examination, the medical doctors discovered the boy’s age to be round 18 years.
“Action will be taken against the boy’s uncle as he has been found involved in spreading the false story of conversion,” the SSP mentioned.
This is the second time in a month that the allegation of a Dalit boy changing to Islam has unfold on social media.
According to the police, the boy had run away from his home a month in the past, spreading rumors of him changing to Islam.
“The police then found the boy. When the boy denied the allegation of conversion, he was handed over to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). Later the boy returned to his uncle’s house,” mentioned circle officer (Bulandshahr) Sangram Singh.
The boy went lacking once more two days in the past and his uncle lodged an FIR on Thursday in opposition to unidentified individuals alleging conversion of his nephew to Islam, the official mentioned. A photograph of him sporting ‘pyjama-kurta’ additionally went viral on social media. “During interrogation, the boy told us that his uncle with the help of his associates spread a false story of his conversion,” a police officer mentioned.
When requested concerning the image of him sporting pyjama-kurta, the SSP mentioned, “The boy told us that he used to wear such clothes since childhood and till now no one objected to it.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
