Case filed in conversion row, Oppn criticises Modi-led govt

BREWING BJP MP Adityanath’s outfit plans mass reconversion, UP put on alert

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Gloomy day at Adelaide: Michael Clarke fought through the pain of a back injury to score a century and lead Australia to 517-7 against India on a raininterrupted second day Wednesday of the first test NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The Opposition denounced in Parliament on Wednesday the alleged forced conversion of around 300 Muslims to Hinduism in Agra for which Uttar Pradesh police have registered a case amid a statewide alert over similar functions lined up this month.

The Muslim families, mostly poor migrants from Bihar and Bengal living in a colony on the outskirts of Agra, said on Tuesday they were tricked into a conversion ceremony hosted jointly by the Dharma Jagaran Manch and the Bajrang Dal the day before with the promise to offer them BPL and ration cards. They refuted the two hard-line RSS affiliates’ claim that these people came and embraced Hinduism on their own volition.

Opposition leaders demanded a response from the government in both Houses of Parliament, saying religious conversions by force and by allurement is a criminal offence.