Bareilly: A 20-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and forced to change her religion in a locality under Majhola police station in UP’s Moradabad.
Police said the girl’s family accused a neighbour of harassing their daughter and forcing her to convert to Islam over personal enmity.
The family told police that the girl went missing on July 26, following which they informed police and started searching for her. Later, locals informed the family that their daughter was abducted by their neighbour in a four-wheeler, said police.
The family alleged that when they confronted their neighbour over the crime, the accused’s kin barged into their house and hurled casteist remarks and abusive at them.
CO Anil Kumar Yadav said, “Based on the family’s complaint, an FIR was registered against five identified — Salman, Faizan, Arshad, Shanu and Dilkhush — and one unidentified person under sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and appropriate sections of the Anti-Conversion Law and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.”
“Police teams have been deployed to trace the missing girl, while effort is on to nab the accused, at the earliest,” added the CO.
