Gurugram woman alleges forced conversion, assault after marriage by fraud

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A 22-year-old girl in Gurugram has alleged that her husband assaulted her and tried to forcibly convert her to his faith after marrying her utilizing a pretend id, police stated on Wednesday, including that the husband and his good friend have been arrested within the case.

The girl stated she learnt of her husband’s actual id after childbirth in 2023 and later escaped to Bihar earlier than returning to Gurugram. (File picture)

Investigators stated that the sufferer, a local of Bihar, lives in Sector 14, and works within the insurance coverage division of an car showroom in Sector 15. She was duped by her husband, who recognized himself to her as “Aarav”.

Her husband and his good friend, each residents of Dhunela in Sohna, purposely visited her to purchase automobile insurance coverage and lure her, police stated. The sufferer and the suspect received married in 2022. Nevertheless, after she gave beginning to her son on August 11, 2023, she learnt that her husband was from a special faith and already married.

On Monday, the suspect got here to the sufferer’s rented lodging in Sector 14, the place she has been staying since final 12 months after she managed to flee, and bodily assaulted her, forcing her to transform her faith and to stay together with his first spouse and members of the family in Sohna.

Neighbours took the sufferer to a civil hospital in Sector 10 from the place police have been alerted.

Primarily based on a written criticism by the sufferer, police have registered an FIR below sections 61 (felony conspiracy), 115 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 299 (deliberate and malicious acts, meant to outrage non secular emotions of any class by insulting its faith or non secular beliefs), 319 (dishonest by personation), 333 (house-trespass after preparation for harm, assault or wrongful restraint) and 351(2) (felony intimidation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Haryana Prevention of Illegal Conversion of Faith Act on Wednesday and booked seven folks, together with Arif, his good friend, and members of the family.

Within the FIR, seen by PR, the sufferer alleged that the suspect had additionally assaulted her in an try to drive her to terminate her being pregnant after they lived collectively in 2023. After she learnt his id, he took her to his residence in Sohna, the place “his mom, spouse and three brothers gave me a special title” and “repeatedly assaulted to transform my faith”. Additionally they used to threaten to kill her son, she alleged.

Investigators stated that, final 12 months, she managed to flee together with her son from their residence in Sohna and immediately went to Bihar the place she handed over the boy to her mother and father and returned to Gurugram to restart her life. Nevertheless, the suspects managed to hint her location to Sector 14 and assaulted her after reaching there on Monday.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, stated Arif and Tarif have been arrested on Wednesday. The duo might be taken on police-remand after manufacturing earlier than a court docket on Thursday for additional interrogation.