Karnataka police arrest 12 Muslim people for forcefully converting Dalit man to Islam

Hubballi, September 26: In a major development, Karnataka police have booked 12 Muslim people including Muslim Preacher, over the allegations of forcefully converting a Dalit man to Islam. Police took the action after, Sridhar Gangadhar of Yadavanahalli in Mandya district filed a complaint with the Nava Nagar Police, alleging that the accused compelled him to undergo circumcision and converted him to Islam.

 

 

As per the police, the accused brought the victim to Bengaluru and then they confined him in a mosque in Banashankari. They then began preaching Islam to him.

 

The accused subjected Sridhar to torture and pushed him to consume beef, as per the complaint. The victim experienced complications following circumcision, including bleeding and agonising wounds with abscesses.

 

 

 

“They took me to a mosque in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, for preaching Islam to me,” he has said in the complaint. “They also forced me to sign an affidavit saying that it was a wilful conversion and gave me a target to convert three people every year to Islam,” the complainant said.

 

 

The accused allegedly forced him to hold a gun while taking pictures of him holding it, according to the complaint. In addition, they forced him to make a 35,000 Rupee deposit into their account, Sridhar has stated.

 

The victim was attacked near Bhairidevarakoppa by unidentified men when he arrived in Hubballi to visit a woman he met online. Then, he was brought to KIMS Hospital. He stated that’s the reason he decided to file a case in Hubballi.