“Two sisters held in Sonbhadra for helping brother in kidnapping, conversion of minor girl”, Times of India, January 26, 2025:
“Sonbhadra police arrested two women for assisting their brother in the kidnapping a girl, forcing her to convert to Islam and sexually harassing her. The main accused man and his mother had already been nabbed by the police, but these sisters were absconding.Providing details of the Friday evening action, inspector Duddhi Manoj Kumar Singh on Saturday said that two women, Husneara (30) and Jahanara (27) of Kalkali Bahra area, were arrested and sent to jail after being produced before the court.
The main accused, their brother, and parents were already arrested in a case lodged in Nov 2023 under sections 366 (kidnapping of a minor to force her for illicit intercourse), 342 (wrongful confinement), 376(a) (rape resulting in death or leaving the victim in a persistent vegetative state), 376(2)(n) (repeated rape), 384 (extortion), 328 (administering poison) of IPC and the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021.
In her complaint, the rape survivor (who is now over 20 years old) on Nov 8, 2023, mentioned that when she was returning home from her school on Aug 31, 2022, one Afroz Ali from Ward 7 in Kalkali Bahra area of Dudhi police station offered her a lift on his motorbike to drop her at her home……”
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