UP cops bust inter-state nexus, arrest 10 people from six states

{ ANOTHER RELIGIOUS CONVERSION RACKET

- HT Correspondent

The state police arrested 10 individuals from six states for their alleged involvement in illegal religious conversions, said senior police officials, while addressing a press conference at the police headquarters, in Lucknow, on Saturday.

A local court in Agra has granted 10 days’ police custody remand of all 10 accused arrested in the religious conversion racket.

Police officials said that the arrested individuals were allegedly using tactics such as ‘love jihad’ and other methods to influence and convert young girls.

Officials said this exposé was done under a new mission called ‘Asmita’ (identity) launched by the UP police. They said the nexus came to light during the Agra police’s operation which began with the registration of a missing persons case for two sisters, aged 33 and 18, in March earlier this year.