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The police had uncovered a larger network of Muslim men involved in harassing, blackmailing and coercing female gym trainees to convert to their religion.

Mirzapur police have arrested Maulvi Khalilul Rahman, the alleged mastermind behind a religious conversion racket operating through local gyms. Authorities sealed four fitness centers after victims reported being trapped in relationships and blackmailed into changing their religion using private videos.

The mastermind behind a sophisticated racket involving forced religious conversions and blackmail targeting young women at gyms in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district has been...

Additional Superintendent of Police, City, Ritesh Singh said that two women came forward and filed separate complaints at the Kotwali Dehat Police Station, alleging that the accused Muslim men working as gym trainers in Mirzapur first befriended them and lured them into a trap, took private photos and videos, and eventually blackmailed and pressured the Hindu women to convert to Islam.

According to Additional Superintendent of Police Nitesh Singh, the cause of Abdul alias Saif’s death is yet to be ascertained, adding that the police is investigating the matter.

A woman in Mirzapur was attacked with a blade after allegedly refusing to convert her religion, prompting a swift police crackdown and the detention of seven suspects.

A 32-year-old woman in Mirzapur, UP, was arrested under the state's anti-conversion law. A Dalit labourer filed an FIR, stating she repeatedly offered him money and other inducements to convert to Christianity.

People in vulnerable situations were tricked in the name of healing services, financial aid along with sewing and embroidery workshops.

According to officials, Rajveer was the one who wrote the offensive lyrics and paid folk singer Saroj Sargam to perform the song.