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Guj: Man, two others held under anti-conversion law

AHMEDABAD: A 25-year-old man and two others were arrested in Gujarat’s Vadodara city on Thursday under a new law for allegedly forcing his wife to convert after marriage and also for domestic violence, police said.
Mohib Pathan, his brother Mohsin and their father Imtiyaz Pathan were arrested by Fatehgunj police under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021, which came into force on June 15.
The controversial legislation provides for punishment ranging from three to ten years in prison.
The three accused were also booked under IPC sections 354 (outraging modesty of woman), 498-A(domestic violence) and 377 (unnatural sex), assistant commissioner of police, Paresh Bhesania told reporters.
Mohib’s wife, a Hindu, had lodged a complaint on Wednesday alleging that he deceived her by claiming that she will not be forced to covert to Islam after marriage, the ACP said.
“But soon after the marriage last year, Mohib and his family started pressuring her to convert and also changed her name.
The victim also claimed that Mohib forced her into unnatural sex and thrashed her on a few occasions,” said Bhesania.
The woman also accused Mohib’s brother Mohsin of harassing her and alleged that her father-in-law refused to give money for her delivery three months ago and asked her to get money from her parents, the officer said.
This is the second FIR registered in Vadodara city in a week under the stringent anti-conversion law which seeks to punish forcible or fraudulent conversion through marriage.
A week ago, Gotri police had arrested a Muslim man for allegedly luring a Hindu woman into marriage by posing as Christian.

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