"No Violation Of Human Rights": UP Cops' Defence After Stopping Muslim Couple's Wedding

Friday, 11 December 2020Newsdesk

Two days after they stopped a wedding ceremony and took a couple from eastern Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar to a police station for "questioning", UP Police has said they did not break the law and were merely acting to verify information about a criminal offence under the state's new stringent unlawful conversion law.

New Delhi, 11 December 2020

As per news report of NDTV, on Tuesday evening, cops in Kushinagar, 325 km from state capital Lucknow, stopped the marriage of a 39-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, both Muslims, and took them to a police station where they were reportedly questioned all night over the marriage.

Source -NDTV