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- Karnataka Hindu Girl Missing Case; Mulsim Syed Moin Arrested Under Anti conversion Law
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A Muslim man has been arrested in Bangalore for making a woman convert to religion on the pretext of marriage. This is the first case registered under the Anti-Conversion Law in Karnataka. The incident came to light when a 19-year-old girl went missing on October 5. After which on October 6, the girl’s mother had lodged a complaint at Yeshwantpur police station.
The accused Syed Moin has been sent to custody. Significantly, the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act has come into force from 30 September.
The conversion took place in Penugonda, Andhra Pradesh.
A missing report was filed on the complaint of the girl’s mother. After this, Syed Moin and the woman were questioned at the police station on October 8. Moin and the girl were neighbors in the BK Nagar area of Yeshwantpur. The two had known each other for about six months. Moin used to work in a chicken shop. While the girl is a painter’s girl who came from Uttar Pradesh.
On October 13, the girl’s mother again filed a complaint that the accused had converted her daughter on the pretext of marriage by taking her to Penugonda.
The main objective of the Anti-Conversion Law
Yesvantpur Police has registered a case under Section 5 of the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act. Anti-Conversion Law specifically seeks to prevent “unfair conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, inducement or any fraudulent means”.
The anti-conversion law, which came into effect from September 30, was passed in the Assembly in December 2021 but was not introduced in the Legislative Council where the BJP lacked the necessary strength. An ordinance was issued in May 2022 to implement the anti-conversion law. In September last month, the bill was re-introduced in the monsoon session of the legislature, in which the BJP got a clear majority of 41 members in the 75-member council. After which it was implemented.
Under this law, any victim, his parents, siblings or anyone else who is in blood relation, marital or adopted relation can make a complaint against conversion. Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 3 shall be punished with imprisonment in accordance with the law.