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The Allahabad High Court precocious quashed an FIR registered nether the U.P. Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, against 5 persons accused of luring a Hindu pistillate to get converted. The tribunal slammed the constabulary enactment arsenic “vexatious” and ordered the authorities to wage a compensation of ₹50,000 to 1 of the men who had to walk one-and-a-half months successful jail.
The lawsuit stems from an FIR lodged by Bahraich nonmigratory Pankaj Kumar whose woman went missing from location with jewellery and currency connected September 13. Mr. Kumar approached the constabulary and said 5 men, named by him successful the FIR, had lured his woman away. Police booked the men nether Sections of the anti-conversion instrumentality and charged them with abduction.
The counsel representing Ubaid Khan, arrested by constabulary aft the incident, told the tribunal that contempt the pistillate signaling a connection saying that she had fled connected her ain due to the fact that of abuse, his lawsuit was not freed.
Ordering contiguous merchandise of Mr. Khan successful an bid connected October 30, the Bench of Justices Abdul Moin and Babita Rani said the lawsuit was an illustration of the “State authorities falling and scrambling implicit each different successful bid to people brownie points” connected the ground of the FIR.
“... aft the FIR had been lodged connected 13.09.2025, the petitioner No.1 was arrested connected 18.09.2025 and the connection of the unfortunate was recorded nether Section 183 of the B.N.S.S., 2023 connected 19.09.2025 wholly falsifying the FIR yet the respondents authorities did not deem it acceptable to instrumentality immoderate corrective enactment for merchandise of the petitioner No.1 and helium continues to languish successful jailhouse since a play of 1 and a fractional months and is inactive successful jail... ,” the tribunal noted.
It added that apathy shown by the authorities has compelled the tribunal to grant a outgo of ₹75,000 connected the State of Uttar Pradesh, of which ₹50,000 volition beryllium paid to Mr. Khan and the remaining ₹25,000 volition beryllium deposited with the Legal Aid Services of the court.
The tribunal allowed the State to proceed against the erring officials and Mr. Kumar for registering a mendacious case.
