Nagpur: The Uttar Pradesh (ATS) anti-terrorism forces have arrested three people from Nagpur in Maharashtra in connection with the case listed at Lucknow Under Up Anti-Conversion Law, an official said on Saturday.
The trio was arrested from the Ganeshpeth area in the city of Nagpur on Friday night, he said.
The defendant was identified as the Prasad Rameshwar Kavale (from Nagpur), Kausar Alam Shaukat Ali Khan (from Jharkhand) and Bhukriya Bando Devidas Meduar (from Gadchiroli in Maharashtra), police officials said in Nagpur.
All three were accused of living in Hansapuri under the jurisdiction of the Ganeshpeth police station, he said.
ATS police up has arrested several people last month and claimed to have solved the national racket of religious conversion.
A fired fired to the Gomtinagar police station in Lucknow under the law of anti-conversion state.
Uttar Pradesh prohibits the conversion of religion that violates the law of religious regulations, 2020, which was announced in November last year, prohibiting unauthorized religious conversion and canceling marriage if they were carried out for religious conversion purposes.
The law provides imprisonment of up to 10 years and a maximum fine of RS 50,000 under various categories.
The top police have said that they have recovered a list of several people accused of being arrested before.
This register brings more than 1,000 people from Maharashtra, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, and Delhin with their names and addresses mentioned in it, they said.