KHARGONE: Two people from Indore have been booked under MP’s new religious law (MP Dharm Swatantra Adhiniyam 2020) on Sunday for allegedly hiding their real identity and forcing two teenagers to marry them.
Mandleshwar police in Khangone have registered a case against the two men, identified as Sohail Khan and Hasan Qadir. They have been arrested and handed over to Azad Nagar police in Indore.
ASP Khargone, Jitendra Singh Pawar, told TOI that on the complaint of two class 12 girls aged 16 and 17,Sohail and Hassan have been booked under IPC, Pocso Act and MP Dharm Swatantra Adhiniyam 2020. Pawar, quoting the complaint, said the accused somehow got the mobile numbers of both girls and started chatting using different names and concealing their identity. Two days ago, they took the girls in a car asking them to join in a cafe to celebrate their birthday. Midway, they took them to Jam Ghat and asked the girls to marry them and took their pictures, he said.
On suspicion, members of a saffron outfit, who were present there, caught and handed them to Mandleshwar police.