Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
On 10-08-21
Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh police arrested a doctor from Pusad town of Yavatmal district in connectin with a case registered at Gomti Nagar police station under anti-conversion law. It may be mentioned that three persons were arrested by UP ATS from Nagpur and Gadchiroli on July 17 in the same case.
The accused person was identified as Dr. Faraz Shah Karamat Shah (27), a resident of Vasant Nagar, Pusad.
A police official informed that Faraz was working with Shah Hospital at Pusad with his relatives after completing MBBS course from Government Medical College Akola in 2012. As per the records of Yavatmal police, Faraz was not a member of any organisation.
The UP ATS had arrested some persons last month in Delhi and had claimed that a nation-wide racket of religious conversions was busted. The police had recovered a register with details of over 1,000 persons, including their names and addresses, from Maharashtra, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi. Sources claimed that names of these three persons from Nagpur were mentioned in the register. Acting swiftly, the ATS had arrested Prasad Rameshwar Kavale, a resident of Kavale Plot, 202, Rahul Complex, Nagpur; Kausar Alam Shaukat Ali Khan, a resident of Shingari Road, Lohicha Bara, opposite Dhanbad, Jharkhand; and Bhupriya Bando Devidas Mankar, a resident of Waigaon, in Chamorshi tehsil of Gadchiroli district, on July 17.
As Faraz's name and mobile number was found in the register, the UP ATS team arrested him from Pusad and took him to Lucknow, a top-ranking police official informed The Hitavada.
The UP ATS is likely to interrogate the accused to ascertain his plans and local accomplices. It may be mentioned that the UP police had registered an FIR in Lucknow under Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 on June 20 and had claimed that a nation-wide racket of religious conversions was busted. The UP’s Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 prohibits unlawful religious conversions and nullifies marriages if they are carried out with the sole purpose of religious conversion. The law provides for imprisonment of up to 10 years and a maximum fine of Rs 50,000 under different categories.
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