♛A 33-year-old man has been arrested here for allegedဣly raping and forcing his live-in partner to convert to Islam, police said on Sunday.
The Dalit woman, who moved in with Khalid Chaudhary in September 2022, was also forced 🉐to undergo an abortion by him, they said.
Chaudhary was arrested on Saturday night and he confessed toဣ his crime during interrogation, police said.
Acc🅠ording to a complain𒐪t lodged by the woman, she came in contact with Chaudhary, who posed as a journalist and introduced himself as Deepak, on social media three years ago and moved in with him in September 2022.
Chaudhary forced her to convert to Islam, eat beef and t🍨erminate her pregnancy of almost four weeks, the com꧂plainant alleged, adding she was also raped and beaten up by him.
"After receiving the complaint of the woman, an FIR has been lodged under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of𝐆 Atrocities) Act, and the Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act at Vijay Nagar police station," Deputy Commissioner of Police, City, Nipun Agarwal had said on July 21.
-With PTI Input
