VALSAD: Authorities have detained a 23-year-old resident of Gujarat’s Valsad district by Madhya Pradesh below the newly-notified Gujarat legislation that penalises forcible or deceptive religious transformation during union, an official said on Sunday.
The accused, Imran Ansari, supposedly kidnapped a 19-year-old girl from his neighborhood in Vapi town of Valsad with the intent of devoting her later forcing her to convert her faith, he explained.
He had been held on Sunday underneath the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act-2021, that came in force on June 15 lays down strict punishment for forcible conversion during union.
The accused was also reserved under Indian Penal Code Sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or causing girl to drive her for union ), 376 (2) (rape), and 506 (2) (criminal intimidation), Vapi city police station’s Agency B Sarvaiya stated.
The girl’s mother filed a missing person’s complaint on June 10, after which police crews started a stunt and zeroed-in about the accused,” he explained.
Through specialized surveillance and assessing of CCTV footage, it had been discovered the victim was using the guy at Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
A group , with the aid of MP authorities, was able to bring the girl back into Vapi, ” the officer said.
“The sufferer, in her statement to authorities, said that the accused enticed her to a relationship and began pushing her marriage.
The accused threatened to kill her brother when she didn’t honor.
The accused was married, however, was pressuring the sufferer for union and spiritual transformation,” Sarvaiya stated.
He took the girl to Ajmer in Rajasthan after which to Indore, in which he attempted to kindly get married .
He allegedly had physical relations with the victim against her dreams, ” the officer stated.
Before, the Gujarat authorities on Friday said they’d enrolled that the initial FIR in the country under the newly-notified legislation and detained a 26-year-old guy in Vadodara.