New Delhi, July 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):A 24-year-old Sikh woman from Muzaffarnagar district, who had alleged that a man in her neighbourhood had married her after forcing her to change her religion, retracted her allegations against two Muslim brothers who had been booked under the anti-conversion law based on her complaint. A report published in the Indian Express said, while recording her statement before a magistrate, the woman denied the allegations. The woman also claimed that she had filed the complaint under pressure from some Hindu organizations, it added.

The two Muslim men were booked for rape and fraud and charged under the anti-conversion law on the basis on her complaint. The woman had accused one of the men in her neighbourhood of preparing false documents to present her as a Muslim woman eligible for nikah. The man the woman had claimed she was married to is in jail at present, while his brother is absconding. “In her statement before the magistrate, the woman denied all charges levelled against the two brothers. She even denied having married [one of] the accused, and claimed she got the FIR lodged following pressure by some Hindu organisations,” the Station House Officer (SHO) of the police station said and added that the woman did not name any outfit.

The complainant also denied that the accused either took money from her or assaulted her, the SHO said. The police are reportedly planning to move court to request the release of the accused from jail. As per the police, the complainant visited the police station on Sunday and alleged that a man had sexually assaulted her on the pretext of marriage and was also not returning the Rs 5 lakh she had lent him. She also claimed that she had married the accused in May and that her father and the accused, both ran grocery shops.

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