Rajkot: A complaint has been filed against a person here under the anti-conversion law in Dhoraji town in Rajkot district of Gujarat. This is first case lodged under amended anti-conversion law that is popularly called anti “Love Jihad” act.

A 30-year-old garage owner named Mohammed aka Dado Gani Sami is accused of raping a victim Hindu girl and trying to convert her religion to Islam. Victim girl said that Mohammed from Radhanagar in Rajkot befriended her by claiming that he was unmarried.

A senior police official said, “The woman told police that she had been in contact with accused for the last one-and-a-half year. He sent her some religious verses on Instagram and forced her into marriage. He allegedly asked her to accompany him to a maulvi to perform the formal ceremony to convert into Islam but as she did not want to change her faith, she approached the police.” The cops added that the complainant got in touch with the accused to sell her scooter.

According to the police, Mohammed arranged taxis for outstation trips and the woman had also hired a taxi from him. The complainant learnt that the accused was married, only after his wife paid a visit to her house. ASP (Jetpur) Sagar Bagmar informed that the accused has been on the run from the law-enforcement authorities. Mohammed has three children while the complainant has one daughter from her marriage with a man from her own community.

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