Lahore/New Delhi, August 31
The teenage Sikh girl, who was allegedly abducted and converted to Islam before being married to a Muslim in Pakistan’s Punjab province, today refused to go home despite the provincial Governor’s plea, fearing threat to her life, an official said.
Governor Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar met the girl, Jagjit Kaur, at a shelter home in Lahore and requested her to go back to her family, but she refused, he said.
Daughter of a Sikh priest, she was yesterday sent to Darul Aman (shelter home) on a court order after she told the judge that she married Mohammad Hassan of her locality of her own free will. Her family alleged she was converted at gunpoint and forced to marry a Muslim.
An official of the Punjab government said Kaur told the Governor that she loved Hassan and married him with her own free will. She said she feared for her life if she returned to her parents’ home in Nankana Sahib.
An FIR was registered on Thursday against six persons in the case and the police arrested one of the suspects, Arsalan (Hassan’s friend), who is also the prime accused in the case and currently on a pre-arrest bail.
Ten more persons were detained today, including relatives and friends of Hassan.
Meanwhile, former Union minister BS Ramoowalia today wrote to Pakistan High Commissioner, urging PM Imran Khan to ensure that conversion and other forms of religious persecutions of Hindus and Sikhs were stopped. — TNS/PTI
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