Maha: Muslim man held for rape, forced conversion; booked under SC/ST Act

Latur: A man was arrested for allegedly raping a woman on a false promise of marriage and forcing her to convert her religion in Maharashtra’s Latur city, police said on Friday.
The police on Thursday arrested Arafat Laik Khan (32), a resident of the Zinganappa lane area of the city, deputy superintendent of police Jitendra Jagdale said.
Based on the complaint lodged by the 27-year-old victim, a case under section 376 (rape) and other relevant provisions of the IPC and Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 has been registered against the arrested accused and seven members of his family, he said.
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The accused proposed to her in October 2018 and forced her to convert her religion, following which an agreement was made on a bond paper.
The accused allegedly took the victim to a flat in a residential building and raped her. However, the accused later arranged to marry another woman, the police said.