VARANASI: Ghazipur police has booked a 17-year-old boy under new anti-conversion law after arresting him for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from another community. The statement of the girl before magistrate will be recorded in this connection on Monday.
Circle Officer, Jamania, Hitendra Krishna, said that on January 21, a girl’s family of a village in Gahmar police station area had lodged a named FIR against a boy of another community alleging that he had kidnapped their minor daughter. After lodging a case of kidnapping under Section 363 of IPC, police started searching the girl, he said. "On January 22, the boy was caught and the girl rescued," he added.
Inspector, Gahmar, Dilip Kumar Singh, said that after the girl was recovered, her family gave lodged another complaint alleging that the girl was kidnapped for forced conversion of religion. On the basis of their complaint, Singh said, another FIR under section 363, 366, 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and 3, 5(1) of UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Ordinance 2020 was lodged.
The boy was produced before the juvenile justice court and sent to juvenile home, he said adding that further investigation in this matter has been started while the girl would be produced before the magistrate to record her statement on Monday.