First case in Gujarat underneath newly amended anti-conversion legislation, seven booked

Seven individuals have been booked within the first case registered in Gujarat underneath the newly amended Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021 that gives for harsh penal motion for pressured spiritual conversion by marriage.
In a criticism filed at Gotri police station in Vadodara, the sufferer has alleged that the important thing accused, 26-year-old Samir Qureshi, who’s a mutton store proprietor, launched himself as Sam Martin on a social networking web site in 2018 and lured her right into a bodily relationship by promising her a “modern life” after marriage.
The accused within the case additionally embody Samir Qureshi’s father Abdul Qureshi, mom Farida, and sister Rukshar in addition to an uncle named Altaf Chauhan and one other accused named Maher Mallik, the Vadodara police mentioned.
According to the sufferer’s criticism, Qureshi allegedly raped her on 4 events at Pyramid Hotel in Vadodara, on National Highway 8 close to a well-liked eatery in Karjan in addition to within the flat of a co-accused, Maher Mallik, situated at Pandya bridge within the metropolis, the police added.
“Qureshi allegedly blackmailed the victim that he would make her nude pictures public and forced her to give in to his advances on multiple occasions. During that time, the victim discovered that she was about eight weeks pregnant and the accused forced her to consume abortion pills. The victim had a second pregnancy that was aborted at a clinic at 21 weeks against her will,” the FIR states.
The FIR additional states that Qureshi forcibly took the sufferer to the Gosiya Masjid in Kalyannagar the place he pressured her to embrace Islam and marry him. He additionally modified her identify to Suhanabanu, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 2, Jayrajsinh Vala mentioned on Friday.
The sufferer, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste, additionally alleged that Qureshi and his household hurled casteist abuses at her when she refused to comply with Islam. “The accused and his family as well as a maternal uncle used castesist slurs against the victim owing to her caste.Recently, the man brought home another woman to marry and began torturing her to leave. The accused repeatedly threatened to kill the family of the victim if she refused to comply,” Police Inspector SV Chaudhari of Gotri police station mentioned.
The police have booked the accused underneath Indian Penal Code Section 498A for home violence, rape of a girl a number of instances [376(2)(n)], unnatural intercourse (377), voluntarily inflicting a girl with a baby to miscarry in opposition to her will (312, 313), intentional frightening to interrupt public peace (504), felony intimidation [506(2)], felony conspiracy [120(b)] in addition to Section 4 of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2021 for forcing conversion by luring and dishonest into marriage, and varied sections of The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities ) Act,1989.