Interfaith couple seeks police protection after family threatens to kill them

An interfaith couple has sought protection from Gurugram police after the woman’s family allegedly threatened to kill them both, police said on Thursday

Published on: Jul 15, 2022, 14:09:09 IST

By Debashish Karmakar, Gurugram

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An interfaith couple has sought protection from Gurugram police after the woman’s family allegedly threatened to kill them both, police said on Thursday.

The Muslim woman, aged around 20 years, left her house of her own free will on July 8 and started living with her Hindu partner, police said.

After the woman sent a postal complaint to deputy commissioner of police (west) on July 11, the police on Thursday lodged an FIR against her father, elder brother, two uncles and grandfather under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Sector 5 police station.

In her complaint, she also said she started living with her Hindu partner out of wedlock as the anti-conversion laws of Haryana prevented them from getting married.

Police said after the woman left home, her family members submitted a missing person complaint at Palam Vihar police station, claiming that she had gone “missing”.

Acting on that complaint, the couple was told to reach the Palam Vihar police station on Wednesday. Police said when the couple reached the station, the woman’s two brothers and two maternal uncles viciously assaulted them and threatened to kill them if they did not agree to separate.

On the woman’s complaint, an FIR was registered against the four under sections 34 (common intention), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at Palam Vihar police station on Wednesday evening and all four have been arrested.

The couple was later produced before the court and after the woman told the court that she was an adult and wanted to live with her Hindu partner, she was allowed to go with him, police said.

Rajiv Kumar, assistant commissioner of police (Udyog Vihar), said that after the assault incident, he issued orders to give the couple police protection.

“They were escorted to their desired destination by police. However, after reaching there, they were hesitant to live under security cover and so the police team returned,” he said.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More