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"Now, the legal position is that the statement of girls in the court will be the deciding factor even if the police arrest the so-called accused. AMRITSAR: The two Hindu minor girls who were allegedly abducted and forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men can retain their religion as Pakistan's Hindu Marriage Act does not approve the marriage of Hindu girls below 18 years.Senior advocate Hira Singh, on Monday told TOI over phone from Karachi , that in 2016 the Sindh assembly had passed the Act which stated that the approved age for marriage could not be less than 18 years. It's high time to take up law against forced conversions." At least seven people have been detained by police in connection with the alleged abduction, forced conversion and marriage of two minor Hindu sisters to older Muslim men in Ghotki town of Pakistan's southern Sindh province. Police had arrested a maulvi who was involved in the nikah ceremony..