UP man held for abducting, marrying minor after conversion

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), March 11 : A 23-year-old youth has been held under the new anti-conversion law for allegedly abducting a 14-year-old girl and forcefully converting her to get married.
The case was lodged on the complaint of the girl’s mother who alleged that the youth gave her a ‘nikahnama’ before leaving her near her home and threatened her not to reveal it to anyone in her family.
Police arrested the accused youth, Tabarak Khan, from his residence in the Shahpur police station area of Gorakhpur on Wednesday and booked him under the anti-conversion law and on charges of kidnapping.
Khan is a resident of Samastipur district in Bihar and has been living in a rented house in Shahpur.
The girl’s mother told police that Tabarak Khan had been harassing and stalking her daughter who studies in Class 6.
The mother said that three days ago, she found a document in Urdu language in her daughter’s bag.