Man booked for abducting, forcibly converting Dalit woman in Nuh village

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, October 31

A Muslim man has been booked in Haryana’s Nuh for allegedly having abducted and then forcibly converted a Dalit woman, police sources said.

The woman’s father Om Prakash, a native of Mahendragarh, claimed Muhammad Iqbal from Neemka village had been stalking his daughter, who worked as a nurse at a primary health centre in Singar village, for the last six months. His complaint at Bicchor Police Station claimed that the suspect had been pressuring the woman into marrying him and had abducted her when she refused his advances.

He claimed his daughter had appeared distressed and frightened when visited him 20 days ago. He also said he feared that she had been “raped and killed”.

“She told us that Iqbal had been stalking her and was threatening her to marry him. She had been refusing his advances for six months but he often stopped her on the streets and forced her to speak to him. He threatened to abduct and rape her,” the complaint said.

The suspect had been booked for abduction (Section 363), compelling a woman to marry (366), criminal intimidation (506), as well as sections under Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act.

“They are conducted raids at suspected locations but both are still missing and their mobiles are switched off,” said Bicchor Police Station SHO Krishan Kumar said.