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  • 3 Hindu sisters in Pakistan compelled to marry their abductors, transformed to Islam

    By Press Trust of India: Three daughters of a Hindu businessman in Pakistan’s Sindh province have been married to Muslim males who first kidnapped them and forcibly transformed them to Islam, based on a number one minority rights group within the nation.

    The head of Pakistan Darewar Itehad, Shiva Kachhi, stated that the incident occurred in Sindh’s Dharki space the place Chandni, Roshni and Parmesh Kumari, daughters of a Hindu businessman, Leela Ram, had been first kidnapped after which forcibly transformed to Islam.

    “The conversion was performed by one Pir Javed Ahmed Qadri and later they were also married to Muslim men,” he stated.

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    Kachhi stated regardless of appeals and pleas from his organisation’s platform, the issue of forcible conversion of Hindu ladies was persevering with unabated with the police and authorities not apprehending the culprits.

    He stated that the three sisters had been married to the identical males who kidnapped them. Kachhi additionally claimed that the assaults on the Hindu neighborhood within the riverine areas have spiked because the Seema Haider incident.

    Seema Haider, a Pakistani girl and a mom of 4, sneaked into India to stay with a Hindu man, Sachin Meena, whom she befriended via a web based recreation platform.

    She was ostracised by her household and neighbours for daring to defy the societal norms of a conservative Muslim nation.

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    There have been day by day threats from dacoits within the riverine areas to retaliate towards Hindus due to this incident, Kachhi stated.

    Last week, a gang of dacoits attacked a Hindu temple with rocket launchers together with adjoining properties belonging to Hindus within the Kashmore space of the Sindh province.

    “After the temple of Bhagri’s was attacked by some dacoits in Kashmore, the authorities have now sent Hindu policemen for the security of temples and worship places in Mirpurkhas, Kashmore, Tharparkar, Ghotki, Sukkur, Umarkot and Sanghar,” Kacchi alleged.

    He claimed these Hindu policemen had additionally been despatched to riverine areas to hunt the dacoits.

    “These are poor Hindu people who are serving in low positions in police belonging to different areas of Sindh and the authorities now want them to provide security for the Hindu worship places,” Kacchi added.

    Hindus kind the largest minority neighborhood in Pakistan.

    The majority of Pakistan’s Hindu inhabitants is settled in Sindh province the place they share tradition, traditions and language with Muslim residents.

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  • Forced non secular conversion “very serious” matter, says Supreme Court

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Forced non secular conversion might pose a hazard to nationwide safety and impinge on the non secular freedom of residents, the Supreme Court stated on Monday and requested the Centre to step in and make honest efforts to sort out the “very serious” problem.

    The courtroom warned a “very difficult situation” will emerge if proselytisation via deception, allurement and intimidation is just not stopped.

    “The issue with respect to the alleged conversion of religion, if it is found to be correct and true, is a very serious issue which may ultimately affect the security of the nation as well as the freedom of religion and conscience of the citizens.”

    “Therefore, it is better that the Union government may make their stand clear and file counter on what steps can be taken by Union and/or others to curb such forced conversion maybe by force, allurement or fraudulent means,” a bench of Justices M R Shah and Hima Kohli stated.

    The courtroom requested Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to enumerate measures to curb the observe.

    “This is a very serious matter. Sincere efforts are to be made by the Centre to stop forced conversions. Otherwise, a very difficult situation will come. Tell us what action do you propose….You have to step in,” the bench noticed.

    Mehta submitted earlier than the highest courtroom that the problem was debated even within the Constituent Assembly.

    “There were two Acts. One was by the Odisha government and another one by Madhya Pradesh dealing with regulation of any forcible conversion by deceit, falsehood or fraud, money. These issues came before this court for consideration and the top court upheld the validity,” Mehta stated.

    The solicitor basic stated pressured non secular conversions are rampant in tribal areas.

    Many a time the victims aren’t conscious they’re the subject material of legal offence and would say they’re being helped, Mehta stated.

    The prime courtroom noticed there could also be freedom of faith however there can’t be freedom of faith by pressured conversion.

    It granted time until November 22, 2022, to the Centre to file its response on the problem and posted the matter for listening to on November 28.

    The apex courtroom was listening to a plea filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay searching for path from the Centre and states to take stringent steps to regulate fraudulent non secular conversion by “intimidation, threatening, deceivingly luring through gifts and monetary benefits.”

    The prime courtroom had on September 23 sought responses from the Centre and others to the plea.

    Upadhyay submitted in his plea that pressured non secular conversion is a nationwide downside which must be tackled instantly.

    “The injury caused to the citizens is extremely large because there is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by ‘hook and crook’,” the plea submitted.

    “Incidents are reported every week throughout the country where conversion is done by intimidating, threatening, deceivingly luring through gifts and monetary benefits and also by using black magic, superstition, miracles but Centre and States have not taken stringent steps to stop this menace,” stated the plea filed via advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey.

    The plea has additionally sought instructions to the Law Commission of India to organize a report in addition to a Bill to regulate non secular conversion by intimidation and thru financial advantages.

    NEW DELHI: Forced non secular conversion might pose a hazard to nationwide safety and impinge on the non secular freedom of residents, the Supreme Court stated on Monday and requested the Centre to step in and make honest efforts to sort out the “very serious” problem.

    The courtroom warned a “very difficult situation” will emerge if proselytisation via deception, allurement and intimidation is just not stopped.

    “The issue with respect to the alleged conversion of religion, if it is found to be correct and true, is a very serious issue which may ultimately affect the security of the nation as well as the freedom of religion and conscience of the citizens.”

    “Therefore, it is better that the Union government may make their stand clear and file counter on what steps can be taken by Union and/or others to curb such forced conversion maybe by force, allurement or fraudulent means,” a bench of Justices M R Shah and Hima Kohli stated.

    The courtroom requested Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to enumerate measures to curb the observe.

    “This is a very serious matter. Sincere efforts are to be made by the Centre to stop forced conversions. Otherwise, a very difficult situation will come. Tell us what action do you propose….You have to step in,” the bench noticed.

    Mehta submitted earlier than the highest courtroom that the problem was debated even within the Constituent Assembly.

    “There were two Acts. One was by the Odisha government and another one by Madhya Pradesh dealing with regulation of any forcible conversion by deceit, falsehood or fraud, money. These issues came before this court for consideration and the top court upheld the validity,” Mehta stated.

    The solicitor basic stated pressured non secular conversions are rampant in tribal areas.

    Many a time the victims aren’t conscious they’re the subject material of legal offence and would say they’re being helped, Mehta stated.

    The prime courtroom noticed there could also be freedom of faith however there can’t be freedom of faith by pressured conversion.

    It granted time until November 22, 2022, to the Centre to file its response on the problem and posted the matter for listening to on November 28.

    The apex courtroom was listening to a plea filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay searching for path from the Centre and states to take stringent steps to regulate fraudulent non secular conversion by “intimidation, threatening, deceivingly luring through gifts and monetary benefits.”

    The prime courtroom had on September 23 sought responses from the Centre and others to the plea.

    Upadhyay submitted in his plea that pressured non secular conversion is a nationwide downside which must be tackled instantly.

    “The injury caused to the citizens is extremely large because there is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by ‘hook and crook’,” the plea submitted.

    “Incidents are reported every week throughout the country where conversion is done by intimidating, threatening, deceivingly luring through gifts and monetary benefits and also by using black magic, superstition, miracles but Centre and States have not taken stringent steps to stop this menace,” stated the plea filed via advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey.

    The plea has additionally sought instructions to the Law Commission of India to organize a report in addition to a Bill to regulate non secular conversion by intimidation and thru financial advantages.

  • Issue of compelled conversions ‘severe’ and may have an effect on safety of nation: SC

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Terming the problem of fraudulent and compelled spiritual conversion as ‘severe’ and ‘harmful,’ Supreme Court on Monday requested centre to file affidavit by Nov 22 detailing steps taken in opposition to forcible conversion. 

    The courtroom warned a “very difficult situation” will emerge if proselytisation by means of deception, allurement and intimidation will not be stopped.

    The bench of Justices MR Shah and Hima Kohli mentioned mentioned, “Everyone has right to freedom of religion but not by forced conversion. It’s a very dangerous thing.” 

    The bench additionally added that the problem may in the end have an effect on the safety of the nation in addition to the liberty of faith and conscience of the residents. 

    “The concern with respect to the alleged conversion of faith, whether it is discovered to be appropriate and true, is a really severe concern which can in the end have an effect on the safety of the nation in addition to the liberty of faith and conscience of the residents. Therefore, it’s higher that Union authorities could make their stand clear and file counter on what additional steps will be taken by Union and/or others to curb such compelled conversion possibly by pressure, allurement or fraudulent means,” the courtroom mentioned. 

    Responding to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s rivalry that spiritual conversion is rampant in tribal areas, the bench mentioned, “You have to step in now.”

    Mehta submitted earlier than the highest courtroom that the problem was debated even within the Constituent Assembly.

    “There were two Acts. One was by the Odisha government and another one by Madhya Pradesh dealing with regulation of any forcible conversion by deceit, falsehood or fraud, money. These issues came before this court for consideration and the top court upheld the validity,” Mehta mentioned.

    The solicitor basic mentioned compelled spiritual conversions are rampant in tribal areas.

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    Many a time the victims aren’t conscious they’re the subject material of legal offence and would say they’re being helped, Mehta mentioned.

    The high courtroom noticed there could also be freedom of faith however there can’t be freedom of faith by compelled conversion.

    The courtroom’s remarks got here in a plea filed by BJP chief Ashwini Upadhyay to declare spiritual conversion by fraud, intimidation, menace and deceiving by luring items and financial advantages as violative of elementary rights. 

    Upadhyay’s plea which was filed in opposition to the backdrop of suicide of 17 yr outdated lady Lavanya in Tamil Nadu had searched for taking stringent steps to regulate spiritual conversion and as a substitute prayed for guiding the Law Commission of India to organize a report in addition to a invoice to regulate “Deceit Religious Conversion”. 

    “There is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by hook and crook and the carrot and the stick,” the plea said. It was additionally argued that the scenario is alarming as many people and organisations are finishing up mass conversions of SC-STs in rural areas. 

    “The mass conversion of socially economically underprivileged people, particularly belonging to SC-ST, has been on a steep rise for the last 2 decades. These organisations operate very smoothly targeting socially economically underprivileged sections particularly belonging to the SC-ST community,” the plea additionally said.

    (With inputs from PTI)

    NEW DELHI: Terming the problem of fraudulent and compelled spiritual conversion as ‘severe’ and ‘harmful,’ Supreme Court on Monday requested centre to file affidavit by Nov 22 detailing steps taken in opposition to forcible conversion. 

    The courtroom warned a “very difficult situation” will emerge if proselytisation by means of deception, allurement and intimidation will not be stopped.

    The bench of Justices MR Shah and Hima Kohli mentioned mentioned, “Everyone has right to freedom of religion but not by forced conversion. It’s a very dangerous thing.” 

    The bench additionally added that the problem may in the end have an effect on the safety of the nation in addition to the liberty of faith and conscience of the residents. 

    “The concern with respect to the alleged conversion of faith, whether it is discovered to be appropriate and true, is a really severe concern which can in the end have an effect on the safety of the nation in addition to the liberty of faith and conscience of the residents. Therefore, it’s higher that Union authorities could make their stand clear and file counter on what additional steps will be taken by Union and/or others to curb such compelled conversion possibly by pressure, allurement or fraudulent means,” the courtroom mentioned. 

    Responding to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s rivalry that spiritual conversion is rampant in tribal areas, the bench mentioned, “You have to step in now.”

    Mehta submitted earlier than the highest courtroom that the problem was debated even within the Constituent Assembly.

    “There were two Acts. One was by the Odisha government and another one by Madhya Pradesh dealing with regulation of any forcible conversion by deceit, falsehood or fraud, money. These issues came before this court for consideration and the top court upheld the validity,” Mehta mentioned.

    The solicitor basic mentioned compelled spiritual conversions are rampant in tribal areas.

    ALSO READ | High priest tells Sikh youth to show martial, flags rise in conversions

    Many a time the victims aren’t conscious they’re the subject material of legal offence and would say they’re being helped, Mehta mentioned.

    The high courtroom noticed there could also be freedom of faith however there can’t be freedom of faith by compelled conversion.

    The courtroom’s remarks got here in a plea filed by BJP chief Ashwini Upadhyay to declare spiritual conversion by fraud, intimidation, menace and deceiving by luring items and financial advantages as violative of elementary rights. 

    Upadhyay’s plea which was filed in opposition to the backdrop of suicide of 17 yr outdated lady Lavanya in Tamil Nadu had searched for taking stringent steps to regulate spiritual conversion and as a substitute prayed for guiding the Law Commission of India to organize a report in addition to a invoice to regulate “Deceit Religious Conversion”. 

    “There is not even one district which is free of religious conversion by hook and crook and the carrot and the stick,” the plea said. It was additionally argued that the scenario is alarming as many people and organisations are finishing up mass conversions of SC-STs in rural areas. 

    “The mass conversion of socially economically underprivileged people, particularly belonging to SC-ST, has been on a steep rise for the last 2 decades. These organisations operate very smoothly targeting socially economically underprivileged sections particularly belonging to the SC-ST community,” the plea additionally said.

    (With inputs from PTI)

  • Pak’s Sindh govt orders high-level probe as kidnapped Hindu woman stays untraceable

    Pakistan’s Sindh authorities has ordered a excessive degree probe as a 14-year-old, who was kidnapped from Hyderabad, remained untraceable.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 12, 2022 16:26 IST

    Senior police officers have began a probe and are in contact with the sufferer’s household. (Representative picture)

    By India Today Web Desk: Pakistans Sindh authorities has ordered a high-level probe as a 14-year-old, who was kidnapped from Hyderabad just lately, remained untraceable.

    The teen was kidnapped from Hyderabad’s Fateh Chowk space when she was on her manner house. The woman’s mother and father have lodged a police grievance however to no avail.

    The Sindh authorities has ordered a high-level probe into the matter, officers mentioned.

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    A Sindh authorities spokesperson mentioned senior police officers have began a probe and are in contact with the victims household.

    A senior police official in Hyderabad mentioned they’re additionally probing the incident of two different Hindu girls who had gone lacking within the final week in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas.

    Cases of abduction and compelled conversion of Hindu women and girls in Sindh province have seen an increase this 12 months.

    Recently, a rescued woman informed an area court docket that she was kidnapped and forcibly transformed to Islam by a Muslim man who married her.

    In one other latest incident, a young person was shot lifeless outdoors her house in Sukkur city after she refused a wedding proposal by a Muslim man.

    (With PTI enter)

  • ‘India not our enemy’: Danish Kaneria hits again at Shahid Afridi over his ‘religious sentiments’ remarks

    Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has accused Shahid Afridi of instigating individuals within the identify of faith.

    “India is not our enemy. Our enemies are those who instigate people in the name of religion. If you consider India as your enemy, then don’t ever go to any Indian media channel,” tweeted Kaneria on Monday. The spinner has bagged 261 wickets in 61 Test matches for Pakistan.

    “When I raised my voice against forced conversion, I was threatened that my career would be destroyed,” he added.

    It all began when Kaneria in certainly one of his interviews revealed that Shahid Afridi pressured him to transform to Islam.

    India isn’t our enemy. Our enemies are those that instigate individuals within the identify of faith.

    If you take into account India as your enemy, then don’t ever go to any Indian media channel. @SAfridiOfficial https://t.co/2gssD7RAHe

    — Danish Kaneria (@DanishKaneria61) May 9, 2022

    “Yes, Afridi used to often tell me to convert to Islam. But, I never used to take him seriously. I believe in my religion and it does not depend on cricket,” Kanera had instructed Zee News.

    A few days later, Shahih Afridi responded strongly to Kaneria’s accusation.

    “If my attitude was bad then why he did not complain to the Pakistan Cricket Board or the department he was playing for. He is giving interviews to our enemy country which can incite religious sentiments. And the person saying all this, look at his own character,” Afridi was quoted by the information.com.pk.

    Afridi additionally slammed Kaneria for defaming the nation’s identify within the spot-fixing, which ended his profession. Kaneria is going through a ban for his involvement in a spot-fixing case.

    “He is accusing me to get cheap fame and make money. Everyone knows about his character.”

    “Kaneria was like my younger brother and I played with him in the department for many years,” stated Afridi.

  • Bihar minister seeks motion over ‘forced conversion’ of two women, cops not so positive

    Bihar minister Janak Ram has written to the authorities in Gopalganj and Jamui in regards to the alleged compelled marriage and conversion of two women from the Scheduled Castes to Islam. Police in each districts lodged circumstances over these incidents however stated the incident in Gopalganj gave the impression to be a “love affair” whereas there was “no merit in the allegation in the FIR” over the Jamui case.
    Bihar BJP shared each the letters on Twitter.
    In a letter to the Gopalganj DM and SP on June 4, BJP minister Ram wrote that one Yogendra Ram complained to police about his daughter being “kidnapped” by one Shahid Khan.
    Police stated the lady is now together with her household. However, Kuchaikot police station in-charge Ashwini Tiwari stated, “The girl is not a minor and she told us that she had gone with the Muslim man willingly. It looks to be a matter of love affair…”
    In one other letter to the Jamui DM and SP, the minister wrote that Rambalak Ravidas of Dinanagar village had filed an FIR at Chandradip police station about his minor daughter, who was allegedly “kidnapped and was forced to marry after religious conversion”.
    However, Jamui SP Pramod Kumar Mandal stated, “Even though the girl has an Aadhaar card showing her age as 15 years, her medical examination shows she is 18. We also found she was already married and not happy with the marriage. She had gone with the Muslim man willingly and has also recorded her statement…”

  • Sreedharan Pillai: Forced conversion in guise of marriage actuality

    By Express News Service
    KOCHI: Even anti-terror businesses agree that compelled spiritual conversions within the guise of marriage are a actuality within the nation, claimed Mizoram Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai. He was talking after inaugurating a webinar on ‘Welfare State and Effect of Unlawful Conversions on Women’s Rights’ organised by the state unit of Bharatheeya Abhibhashaka Parishad.

    Alleging that even the Christian neighborhood was going through this menace, Pillai mentioned it was within the wake of those occasions that many state governments determined to cross anti-conversion legal guidelines. These legal guidelines will defend the ladies who’re the true victims of such marriages, he mentioned, including that although conversion itself was not unlawful, it turns into so when it’s carried out by drive or deceit.

    Delivering the keynote handle on the convention, Suman Chauhan, nationwide secretary of the ABAP, demanded that there must be a central legislation regulating spiritual conversions within the identify of marriage. Such conversions have a civil consequence so far as India is worried, she mentioned.

  • UP: FIR towards Muslim man from Karnataka after teen goes lacking

    Gorakhpur police has registered an FIR towards a Muslim man from Karnataka for allegedly kidnapping a 19-year-old girl from the district and forcing her to transform.
    The FIR has been lodged below sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing girl to compel her marriage, and so forth) and 363 (kidnapping) of the IPC and below the brand new anti-conversion legislation in Uttar Pradesh.
    The FIR was registered every week after the girl’s father lodged a lacking individual report when she didn’t return from faculty.
    Police officers stated one Mehboob has been named within the FIR on the premise of the girl’s name information and that they aren’t positive concerning the id of the accused. A quantity within the name report was traced to Karnataka and a police group from Chiluatal police station in Gorakhpur has now left for there.
    On January 5, the girl’s father, a retired Armyman, filed a lacking individual report, stating that he dropped his daughter at school the day earlier than however she didn’t return.
    Per week later, based mostly on the girl’s name element information, the daddy alleged that one Mehboob grew to become her pal in 2019 after introducing himself as Hindu and had now kidnapped her. “I am sure that Mehboob can pressure my daughter for conversion…I have also come to know that he took my daughter on the pretext of getting her a job at a company,” the daddy has alleged within the FIR.
    Chiluatal SHO Niraj Kumar Rai stated, “The allegation is that a Muslim youth lured his daughter and took her away to pressure her for conversion. The father did not have any information about the accused earlier and a missing person report was filed on January 5.”
    “Following that, we checked the call detail record and found a number. On checking caller ID application Truecaller, we found the name Mehboob. The girl’s friends told us that she used to talk to this guy. Her father suspected that he is Muslim and based on that, the allegation of love jihad and forceful conversion has been made,” stated Rai.

    “At this point, we cannot be sure if Mehboob is the original name of the person. Everything is based on the complaint and things would be clear once the woman is recovered. The location of the number is in Karnataka and a team has been sent there to recover her. The girl is a major and we cannot confirm ‘love jihad’ or if the girl has married or has changed her religion,” he added.
    Campiarganj circle officer Rahul Bhati stated the police group is predicted to achieve Karnataka quickly.