Uttar Pradesh: A man has been arrested for allegedly forcing a woman to convert to Islam to marry him and encouraging her to commit suicide after her refusal in Kanpur, police said on Saturday. The 24-year-old man was in a relationship with the victim, who was also 24, and had given her the option to either convert or kill herself to avoid 'social humiliation.'
The woman had committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling hook in her house on Wednesday, said Assistant CP (Collectorganj) Tej Bahadur Singh. The victim had come in contact with the accused a couple of years ago through a social networking site, where he identified himself as Saurabh, the ACP said.
In the FIR lodged on Friday, the woman’s father accused Shahrukh of harassing and forcing his daughter to marry him as per Islamic rituals, the ACP said. The father claimed that Shahrukh also had his daughter's private photos and videos with which he threatened her to commit to Islam and marry him.
Shahrukh was booked under IPC's section 306 (Abetment of suicide) and sections 3 and 5(I) of UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act 2021, police said. He was arrested from Bhoosatoli, Harbansh-Mohal on Friday, ACP said, adding, he was produced before a court from where he was sent to jail, the ACP added.
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