Members of Hindutva group Karni Sena allegedly stopped an inter-faith marriage at a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, claiming that it was a case of forced religious conversion, The Indian Express reported on Thursday.
A Muslim man named Dilshad had gone to the court with a Dalit woman on Wednesday to get married, PTI reported.
A purported video of the incident showed Karni Sena members harassing the woman, who said that she was marrying the man willingly. “What is your name?” a man asked the woman in the video. “What caste are you from? Which caste does the man belong to? Is he Muslim? Why do you want to marry a Muslim?”
Karni Sena members then reportedly took the couple to a police station. Ballia’s Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada said the woman’s father alleged that she had been abducted and the police filed a case based on his complaint.
Dilshad has been detained, according to the Hindustan Times.
“We will present her in a court soon, where…