UP Pregnant Woman In Hospital, Husband In Jail Over Interfaith Marriage

Moradabad:

A younger pregnant lady, packed off to a authorities shelter after her husband and his brother have been arrested below Uttar Pradesh’s new anti-conversion regulation, has been hospitalized twice in three days over complaints of stomachache, bleeding and recognizing.

The lady was heckled by employees of the Bajrang Dal, a rightwing group linked to the BJP, inside a police station in Moradabad district earlier this week — a video of which had gone viral. The 22-year-old, who had transformed to Islam on the time of her wedding ceremony in July, had gone to get her marriage registered on December 5 when she, her husband and his brother have been intercepted by Bajrang Dal employees and dragged to the police station.

The lady’s husband, a Muslim, and his brother have been arrested below new legal guidelines that ban “fraudulent and forcible conversions”, together with conversion for marriage. The lady instructed reporters that she married 4 months earlier than the regulation got here into drive, however that didn’t cease the police. She was despatched to a girls’s shelter within the district.

The federal government has denied experiences that the girl had a miscarriage on the shelter.

“What was reported within the newspaper is fake and it’s rejected,” mentioned Vishesh Gupta, the top of the kid rights panel within the state. He asserted that the girl had been discharged on Sunday and on the time she was three months pregnant and the newborn had a heartbeat.

However NDTV has confirmed that the girl has been hospitalized once more inside hours. She was first admitted on December 11 (Friday) after she complained of a abdomen ache. She was discharged on Sunday, as confirmed by Dr Gupta.

Nevertheless, she was admitted to hospital once more on Sunday, hours after she was discharged, after she complained of recognizing, bleeding and stomach ache.

“The affected person’s vitals are okay. Bleeding has additionally stopped. She hasn’t had bleeding after coming right here (to the hospital),” mentioned Sunita Pandey, the Medical Superintendent on the district hospital in Moradabad, whereas confirming that she was nonetheless admitted on the hospital as of Monday afternoon.

In movies that emerged on-line, the girl and her husband have been instructed by Bajrang Dal members: “It’s due to folks such as you that this (anti-conversion) regulation needed to be enacted.”

The lady’s household has allegedly not been allowed to satisfy her in hospital.