Vadodara/Bareilly: Uttar Pradesh Police has booked a youth and three clerics in Pilibhit before they could convert a Hindu girl from Vadodara to Islam.

The accused are booked by Sehramau North police station under IPC sections 366 (abducting woman to compel her marriage), 368 (wrongfully concealing and or keeping in confinement) along with the sections 3 and 5 of the UP’s Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020. All the accused have been arrested.

Accused Tasleem Arif was working in Vaddoara based factory while a girl was living in Vadodara with her maternal uncle after the death of her parents. UP district police arrested Arif and three clerics Aqib, Maulana Rahish and Syed Tareef, on the basis of a complaint filed by the village head Yadvinder Singh, when they were about to convert victim girl to Islam.

Local police said that the woman’s maternal uncle will soon come to Pilibhit to take her home. The accused have not been sent to jail and further action will be taken on the basis of the woman’s statement in the court tomorrow.