J&K ‘conversion’ row: Man in jail, sister says ‘didn’t like relationship’

Thursday, 1 July 2021Newsdesk

The family of Shahid Nazir Bhat hasn’t seen him since the morning of June 21, when he left home for a walk. For two days, they did not hear from him till police came knocking on their door saying Bhat had eloped with a woman from the Sikh community and her family had lodged a complaint.

New Delhi, 01 July 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, With the 29-year-old now under arrest on charges of kidnapping and criminal intimidation, and at the centre of allegations of forcible conversion of Sikh women for marriage — which have also reached the Union Home Ministry — Bhat’s family says they were not in favour of his relationship with Manmeet Kaur. On Tuesday, after she had been handed back to her family, Kaur was married to a man from Sikh community. The family is now in Delhi. Bhat’s family, based in Rainawari, Srinagar, says he is divorced, with a six-year-old daughter who lives with them. “He and his wife divorced after two years of marriage,” says elder sister Rukaiya Bhat.

Source - NDTV
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