NEW DELHI: Three days after registering the
first case under the newly-promulgated anti-conversion law,
police in
Bareilly on Wednesday arrested the accused who was “hiding due to fear of being shot in an encounter”.
Uwaish Ahmad, 22, was booked on Sunday, hours after the UP’s ordinance against “forced”
religious conversion came into effect. Ahmad is the first to be arrested under
Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020.
He allegedly threatened to kidnap and convert a married woman.