Man alleges attempt by wife, kin to forcibly convert him

Chandigarh, July 14

A local court has issued notices on a complaint of a Sikh man to her wife and her relatives. The man has alleged that they all are forcing him and his nine-year-old son to convert their religion from Sikhism to Islam.

In a civil suit filed through counsel Dixit Arora, the man sought the directions of the court to restrain them not to interfere in his religious practices and stop forcing him to convert his religion. While issuing the notices, the court fixed the next hearing of the case for July 20.

Arora said the plaintiff had approached the court after the police failed to act on his complaints filed against his wife and her relatives. The man, in the complaint, has said that he met his wife when they were working together at a shop in 2008. He is a Sikh and his wife a Muslim by religion. They married the same year after the woman proposed to him.

He alleged that soon after the marriage, her parents and relatives started forcing him to convert to Islam. To avoid the pressure, he had lived out of the city for many years and returned here in 2016 on the insistence of his wife.

The complainant said his wife gave birth to a boy in 2012. He alleged that from day one of the birth of the child, her relatives had been trying their best to convert the child to Islam, but he opposed it. — TNS

The complaint

The man said he met his wife when they were working together at a shop in 2008. He is a Sikh and his wife a Muslim. They married the same year. He alleged that soon after the marriage, her parents and relatives started forcing him to convert to Islam.