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Neighbour Mansoor Khan forcibly circumcises 6-year-old Hindu boy, police books his 8-year-old child and manipulates victim family’s testimony: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2022

In March 2022, a 6-year-old Hindu boy was forcefully circumcised by his Muslim neighbour in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. However, the police has reportedly ignored the testimony of the victim family and have booked only the neighbour's juvenile son.

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UP: Bulandshahr man Umar Mohammad held for circumcising 9-year-old after ‘adopting’ the child without following norms, CM office takes cognizance

OpIndia Staff - 11 June, 2022

Umar Mohammad circumcised and converted the child as soon as he adopted him without following norms, arrested

Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Minor Hindu boy forcefully converted and married to older Muslim woman, cleric and three others arrested after video of ‘nikah’ goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 26 May, 2022

The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested a Muslim woman, her parents, and a cleric for converting a minor boy forcefully and performing the Nikah.

Law

Will not hesitate to take serious action against perpetrators who practice forceful religious conversion in schools and colleges: What Madras HC said

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2022

The petitioner proposed to set up an Internal Complaints Committee at District Level to stop the rampant forced conversion rackets. The advocate said that the committee would act as a fact-finding committee with an appellate remedy before the concerned District Collector

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‘Bhagwat Gita is evil, read Bible’: Tailoring teacher in Tamil Nadu forces Hindu students to recite Christian prayers, follow Christianity, suspended

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2022

Tailoring teacher in Tamil Nadu suspended for forcing Hindu students to follow Christian rituals, abusing Hindu deities

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‘Started talking about living with Jamaatis’: UP Maulvi and his aide arrested for attempting to convert a Hindu man into Islam

OpIndia Staff - 9 April, 2022

The police have booked the accused under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act.

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Uttar Pradesh police books Dr Farooqui Kamal for converting his employee to Islam, had forced the latter to recite the verses of the Quran

OpIndia Staff - 9 April, 2022

The Uttar Pradesh police Friday booked a doctor named Dr Farooqui Kamal based on a complaint lodged by his employee, accusing the doctor of forcefully converting him to Islam

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Uttar Pradesh: Sabir Mirza arrested for abduction, forced conversion and ‘nikah’ of an 18-year-old girl, Maulvi’s role being probed too

OpIndia Staff - 8 April, 2022

Sabir Mirza kidnapped the girl and took her to a mosque in Banda district. He allegedly married her after converting her to Islam.

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‘The child’s dying declaration can’t be ignored’: Madras HC slams TN police, hands over Lavanya suicide case to CBI

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2022

The Madras HC decision to hand over M Lavanya suicide case to CBI came in the wake of her father's petition claiming that they had lost faith in Tamil Nadu police's investigation.

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