Muslim woman in UP booked for pressing Hindu husband to embrace Islam

“An FIR has been lodged against his wife and her four family members. We are investigating the allegations. Legal action will be taken only after we find that the claims made in the complaint are true,” said Sarjana Singh, the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Barla in Aligarh.

According to the police, Singh had first approached the Karni Sena national vice-president Gyanendra Singh Chauhan, who took him to Sarjana Singh.

According to Chauhan, Ajay Kumar Singh told him that he and Muskaan had a fierce fight on March 26 over cooking meat at home. Ajay had asked his wife to not cook meat on the auspicious days of Chaitra Navratri. “The man is terrified and we will come to his rescue because we cannot allow a Hindu to embrace Islam if he or she is not willing to change the religion,” said Chauhan.

The Aligarh police have registered a case under sections 295 (damages or defiles worship, or any object sacred by any class), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting it’s religion or religious beliefs), 298 (deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings), 506 criminal intimidation of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sarjana Singh told The Indian Express.

“I have called the couple and will try for a patch-up between them. The police will take action if the woman and her family members continue to put pressure on the man to convert,” said deputy SP Sarjana Singh.

After the couple got married in December, Muskaan’s family had lodged a case of kidnapping and forcible marriage against Singh at Akbarabad police station. But Muskaan told the court that she had married him on her own will. The court dismissed the case.