A 50-year-old woman from Noida has accused a Muzaffarnagar man of concealing his religious identity, sexually exploiting her, defrauding her of lakhs of rupees, and forcing her to convert, nearly a decade after they first met.
FIR Registered Against Accused
Following the SSP's direction, Bhopa police registered an FIR against the accused, 52-year-old Ashfaq Raju, and his four children under BNS sections 69 (deceitful sexual intercourse), 316 (criminal breach of trust), 318(4) (cheating), 319(2) (cheating by personation), alongside relevant sections of the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act. Bhopa SHO Ashutosh Kumar said, "Raids are being conducted to arrest the accused."
The Allegations
According to the police complaint filed on Thursday with the support of a local Hindu organisation, the complainant first met the accused in 2016 at a social event in Muzaffarnagar. The man introduced himself as "Rajeev Balyan."
"Because I was a widow, I needed a trustworthy person to help me raise my two children. In 2017, he proposed marriage and I immediately accepted," the woman stated.
On January 24, 2017, the woman alleged, Ashfaq took her to Piran Kaliyar in Roorkee, where they had a nikah. During the ceremony, his name was registered as Ashfaq and hers as Noorjahan.
According to her, Ashfaq never brought her to his home in Muzaffarnagar and instead kept her at the Noida flat owned by her. Once during a brief stay at his family home in Morna village in Muzaffarnagar, the woman said she discovered that Ashfaq already had a wife and five children.
Later, Ashfaq allegedly pressured the woman into taking a ₹30 lakh loan against her Noida flat. He took all the money on the pretext of building a house, she told police.
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