“UP: Anees Ahmed sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a Dalit woman after befriending her posing as Akash, had converted her to Ayesha”, Opindia, March 6, 2024:

“On 6th March, a man named Mohammad Anees Ahmed from Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur was sentenced to life imprisonment in a case of traping a Hindu woman by hiding his identity and converting her to Islam. The man has been convicted by a SC/ST court in Bulandshahr under the Religious Conversion Act, SC/ST Act and relevant sections of the IPC. The Special SC/ST Act Court also imposed a fine of Rs 4.56 lakh on the convict.

This is the first case of life term under the Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act of Uttar Pradesh.

Mohammad Anees Ahmed had masqueraded as Hindu man Akash and tricked a Dalit woman from Mangolpuri, Delhi into befriending him. Around eight months back, he took her to the Gulaothi area of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar and started living with her in a rented home. He repeatedly had physical relations with her there under the pretext of marriage…..”

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