Meerut: A young woman who had alleged in a police complaint earlier this year that she was abducted, gang-raped and forced into religious conversion, has now gone back on her statement, the Meerut police have said.
On Sunday, the 20-year-old woman told the police that she had not been abducted in July this year and had run away with a young Muslim man. She has said she now fears a threat to her life from her own family.
Her father, however, has denied this and alleges that she was forcibly taken away on Sunday from their home by a man pressuring her to change her statement.
The party's state unit made love jihad a prominent election agenda in the September by-elections, but the BJP performed poorly.
The woman had said at the time that she had had surgery to remove an unwanted pregnancy.
With the case under trial, the court will now have to take cognizance of the new development and decide what happens next.
Samajwadi Party spokesperson, Rajendra Chaudhary, has charged the BJP with "trying to divide society with non issues like Love Jihad."
On Sunday, the 20-year-old woman told the police that she had not been abducted in July this year and had run away with a young Muslim man. She has said she now fears a threat to her life from her own family.
Her father, however, has denied this and alleges that she was forcibly taken away on Sunday from their home by a man pressuring her to change her statement.
The party's state unit made love jihad a prominent election agenda in the September by-elections, but the BJP performed poorly.
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The woman had said at the time that she had had surgery to remove an unwanted pregnancy.
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With the case under trial, the court will now have to take cognizance of the new development and decide what happens next.
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Samajwadi Party spokesperson, Rajendra Chaudhary, has charged the BJP with "trying to divide society with non issues like Love Jihad."
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