On 11th March (Saturday), 30-year-old Hina alias Mubbasreen has been apprehended for extorting money from a constable named Shrikant by the Baghpat police in Uttar Pradesh. The woman from Delhi also forced him to embrace Islam as a condition for testifying for him in a rape case she lodged against him in 2021. Presently stationed in Baghpat, the 35-year-old cop lost his wife a while back. Meanwhile, Hina assured him that she would leave her husband and marry him if he complied.
Nevertheless, she did not fulfil her promise in spite of his conversion. The police stated that on the contrary, she and her companions persisted in extracting money from him, totalling Rs 17 lakh under the guise of assisting him in the case. They have booked her and five other people, including her husband and a cleric, in response to the victim’s complaint. “We have arrested the woman accused of harassing the police constable, and efforts are underway to trace the remaining accused in the case,” informed Baghpat Circle officer Rohan Chaurasia, as reported by The Indian Express. She has been brought before a court.
The authorities mentioned that Shrikant went to the Khekra police station to register an FIR against the woman and unveiled that he initially met her through her husband when he was stationed in Ghaziabad in 2012. He visited their house often after they started talking on the phone on a regular basis. The woman began to push him to switch to her religion for marriage and threatened to charge him of rape when he refused.
According to the police, the constable was caught and imprisoned in Delhi in 2021 after the woman filed a formal complaint alleging rape. She then restored contact with the personnel after he was released. She promised to make a statement in his support and tie the knot with him after divorcing her husband if he became a Muslim.
The cop disclosed that she extorted almost Rs 17 lakh from him during this time through her collaborators in the name of helping him. According to the authorities, he reported to have converted to Islam and repeatedly attended religious events as a result of the woman’s pressure.
“Despite complying with her demands, the woman neither gave a statement in his favour nor married him and also failed to return the money. Aggrieved by this, the constable approached the police and lodged an FIR against the woman and others,” an official revealed.
According to other reports, the constable asserted he was compelled to change his faith and wed her due to the possibility of criminal charges and harm to his reputation. Additionally, the complaint stated that the coercion continued after the marriage. Shrikant added that the woman had kept him under perpetual strain throughout the years by using blackmail and psychological abuse.
Charges of criminal intimidation, intentional and malicious conduct meant to offend the religious sentiments of any class by disparaging their religion or religious beliefs, and extortion have been invoked against the perpetrators. The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act has also been employed. The officer further stated that the involvement of Hina’s husband is also under probe.
