Vadodara: A case of alleged harassment and assault following an interfaith relationship has come to light in Vadodara, where a woman has accused a man of physically and mentally abusing her for several years after luring her into a relationship on the pretext of marriage. The accused, identified as Salman Salimkhan Pathan, has been booked after the victim approached Bapod Police Station with a complaint. Police said the matter is under investigation. According to Bapod police, the woman, who ha...Read More

Valsad: In a case involving the kidnapping and rape of a minor tribal girl in Dharampur taluka, Valsad Police have arrested a 27-year-old man, Osman bin Mahmood Pathan, from Mumbai. The accused was produced before a court, which granted police remand until January 28. Relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act have also been invoked against the accused. According to police, the minor girl from a tribal community went missing from a village in Dharampur on J...Read More

Ahmedabad: A Hindu woman in the city allegedly ended her life after finding out that the man she had been living with for the past two years was already married. The victim also allegedly faced repeated harassment and assault, police said. Following a complaint filed by the victim’s mother, Vatva police arrested the accused, Mohammad Abid Mohammadyamin Sheikh, and registered a case of abetment to suicide. According to the complaint, the victim, a resident of Vatva, was in a live-in relationsh...Read More

Surat: Activists of local Hindu organisations on Wednesday reached a hotel located at Regent Plaza in the Dindoli area of the city following information about a young man allegedly staying with a Hindu minor girl after concealing his identity. The incident led to a major commotion at the hotel premises, prompting police intervention. According to details, a Muslim youth and a Hindu minor had checked into the Way Point Hotel on the fourth floor of Regent Plaza. The youth allegedly entered a Hind...Read More

Rajkot: A shocking case of sexual assault and domestic abuse has come to light in the city’s Upal Kantha area, after a 19-year-old Hindu woman filed a complaint at Thorala police station against her husband and brother-in-law. According to the complaint, the woman, who had a love marriage with a Muslim man despite her family’s opposition, alleges that her brother-in-law repeatedly raped her over the past year. The abuse allegedly occurred whenever her husband was away for work. However, acc...Read More

Mahuva (Surat): Yet another distressing case of Love Jihad has come to light from Mahuva town in Surat district, where a Muslim youth, Fayaz, allegedly concealed his religious identity and trapped a Hindu girl in a fake love affair for nearly a decade. During this time, he allegedly repeatedly raped her, made her pregnant, forced her to undergo an abortion, and threatened to kill her. According to the FIR registered at Mahuva Police Station, around nine years ago, the accused, Faiyaz Rafiq Shei...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gandhinagar police carried out a major operation, tracing the accused in a Love Jihad case from Assam and ensuring the safe return of the girl he had allegedly abducted to her family. The police teams from Gandhinagar searched across multiple districts in Assam for over a week before locating the accused, Soif Abdul Manaf Uddin, on Thursday and returning the girl safely to her family. The case involved a 20-year-old girl from a village near Gandhinagar who had recently gone mis...Read More

Vadodara: A 34-year-old woman working in the city’s catering service lodged a complaint after alleging that a man who used a false Hindu identity repeatedly raped her and threatened her life, and that she became pregnant three times during the period, police said on Monday. Police have registered a case and initiated an investigation. According to the complaint, the woman met the accused through a mutual contact while working on a catering assignment in Waghodia in February 2023. The man in...Read More

Surat: The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the city police has arrested a man for creating fake documents to conceal his identity from his Hindu wife’s family. The 24-year-old accused, Phoolfam Hasan Akbarali Shah, alias Honey Yadav (fake Hindu name), a native of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly produced a fake Aadhaar card and bank passbook in a Hindu name to gain acceptance from his wife’s family. According to police, the SOG received a tip-off that a Muslim man in Pandesara was living ...Read More

Indore: A Muslim youth named Sohil reportedly deceived a Hindu girl by posing as a Hindu on social media and lured her to Gujarat under the pretext of marriage. Before the wedding, he allegedly raped her in a hotel. Subsequently, he pressured her to convert to Islam, claiming that paradise could only be attained through the religion. According to police, Sohil first made the girl recite the Kalma in the presence of a Maulvi, then conducted the Nikah (Islamic marriage ceremony). An FIR has been ...Read More