A person who allegedly eloped with an 18-year-old woman and transformed her to Islam has been arrested in Bengaluru on costs underneath Karnataka’s new anti-conversion legislation, police stated Saturday.
Two instances, one underneath the brand new Karnataka Safety of Proper to Freedom of Faith Act 2022 and the opposite on a kidnapping cost, have been registered towards Syed Muheen (22), a resident of north Bengaluru who allegedly eloped with Khushboo Yadav and transformed her to Islam to facilitate their marriage.
The Yeshwanthpur police arrested Muheen on the idea of a criticism filed by Khushboo’s mom Gyantidevi Yadav, deputy commissioner of police (north) Vinayak Patil stated.
Muheen and Khushboo have been neighbours within the B Ok Nagar space of Yeshwanthpur and had been seeing one another for practically six months. Whereas Muheen labored at a hen store, Khushboo, one of many 4 kids of a painter from Uttar Pradesh, had dropped out of faculty.
On October 6, Gyantidevi filed a lacking criticism for her daughter stating that she was suspected to have eloped together with her lover after leaving residence on the pretext of going to the store on October 5. The mom informed police that she had heard from neighbours just a few months earlier than that her daughter had been going round with a neighbourhood boy referred to as Muheen.
On October 8 Muheen and Khushboo appeared earlier than police and claimed to have married, police stated.
Gyantidevi filed a second police criticism, underneath the brand new legislation, on October 8 stating that Khushboo had been duped by Muheen into changing to Islam to marry him.
In line with Gyantidevi, Khushboo was taken to a dargah close to Penukonda in Andhra Pradesh on October 5 by Muheen. After a conversion ceremony on the dargah, Khushboo was introduced again to Bengaluru by Muheen however no marriage was solemnised, she stated. “My daughter has been transformed with out following the foundations which state {that a} report have to be given to the district commissioner relating to any conversion from one faith to a different to facilitate inter-religious marriages. In violation of the legislation, my daughter has been transformed from Hinduism to Islam underneath the promise of marriage,” she stated in her criticism towards Muheen and others who facilitated the elopement.
In line with sources, the case underneath the brand new anti-conversion legislation was filed after Khushboo insisted on residing with Muheen. Gyantidevi stated her daughter had determined to elope as a result of she “lacked the intelligence of different women”.
The brand new anti-conversion legislation, handed by the Meeting in December 2021 and the Legislative Council in September 2022, was notified on September 30 by the federal government.
As per the legislation, “No individual shall convert or try to convert both instantly or in any other case some other individual from one faith to a different by use of misrepresentation, drive, undue affect, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage, nor shall any individual abet or conspire for conversions”.
Complaints of conversion might be filed by members of the family of an individual getting transformed or some other individual associated to her or him, together with a colleague.
If a conversion takes place for the aim of marriage, the wedding can be legitimate provided that the conversion is delivered to the discover of a district Justice of the Peace 30 days prematurely of it and 30 days after it.
For individuals who convert minors, girls and scheduled caste and scheduled tribe individuals, the punishment is a jail time period of three to 10 years and a Rs 50,000 superb. For conversions involving individuals of the final class, a jail time period of three-five years and a Rs 25,000 superb are the punishment.
In instances of elopement by younger {couples}, police used to ebook boys underneath part 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code. The instances have been, nonetheless, dropped if the ladies have been adults and said in courtroom that they’d gone away on their very own. The utmost punishment for kidnapping is seven-year imprisonment and a superb.