Summary:
Moradabad: A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh`s Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district`s Kanth area.
The men were handed over to the police after a group of people from a right-wing group, the Bajrang Dal, accosted the trio at the marriage registration office and stopped them from going ahead with formalities, and then took all three to the local police station.
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Moradabad: A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh`s Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district`s Kanth area.
The men were handed over to the police after a group of people from a right-wing group, the Bajrang Dal, accosted the trio at the marriage registration office and stopped them from going ahead with formalities, and then took all three to the local police station.
In a 1 minute and 11-second video that has gone viral on social media, the men surround the woman inside the premises of the Kanth police station in Moradabad.
"Show us the permission you have from the DM (District Magistrate) to convert your religion," one of the men tells the woman, as at least two policemen, one of them with a lathi look on.
"Have you read the new law or not?" another man says, adding "Ye tum jaise logon ke liye banana pada hai (the law had to be made for people like you)".
The woman, however, told journalists she and the man were married with consent.
"I am an adult, I am 22 years old.
I got married of my own free will on the 24th of July.