Pilibhit (UP), Oct 29 Three people were arrested and sent to jail on Thursday in connection with allegations of pressuring a man to convert his religion and threatening him, police said.
Circle Officer (City) Amarnath Verma said the three accused were produced before a court around 5 pm and subsequently sent to jail. Further investigation is underway, he said.
According to the police, Hitesh Kumar Saxena, a resident of Khakra locality, lodged a complaint on October 28 alleging that he had met Raunak Fatima in 2019-20 while tutoring children at the house of her relative Rizwan Hussain.
Saxena alleged that Fatima and her relatives conspired to draw him into a relationship and later threatened to implicate him in a false case and pressured him to convert his religion in 2023.
He further alleged that he was called to Sajjad Hussain’s house on April 4, 2025, and subjected to religious conversion allegedly without his consent.
Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with Sections 3 and 5 of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.
The arrested accused have been identified as Rizwan Hussain, 48, and Sajjad Hussain, 62, both residents of Wasil locality, and Raunak Fatima, 19, a resident of Bara Majhlia village in Amaria police station area, police said.
(PTI News)
