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In 2022, a case came to light from Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh where a man named Mohammed Sablu alias Guddu was booked for forcibly circumcising a two-year-old Hindu boy for converting him to his religion.
Below are the details of the case:
The FIR
The first information report (number 703/2022) was registered at Nandgram police station in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh on 19 July.
The complainant in the case was Pinki, a Hindu woman living in Nandgram. In her complaint recorded in the FIR, she stated that she had separated from her husband and was homeless after leaving his house. Ten months earlier, she met a man who introduced himself as Guddu and offered support. He provided her shelter and also offered her a job. She started living with him at his house in the Prahlad Gadhi area of Nandgram.
After a week, he took her to Puranpur area of Pilibhit district, which was his native place. After two-three days of living there, she found out that Guddu was Muslim. He was actually Sablu, son of Masiullah. Sablu did nikah with Pinki after making her convert.
After about twenty days of their marriage, Sablu took Pinki’s two-year-old son Rudra, from her previous marriage, to his sister’s house. When he returned, Pinki saw that her son had been made to undergo circumcision. When she opposed this act of Sablu, he assaulted her. She questioned his intentions and said that Rudra was the son of her first husband, who was Hindu. She asked Sablu how he could do that.
Pinki’s statement further says that the child was hurt and tormented. Whenever she raised questions about this incident again, Sablu beat her. The assaults increased day by day. One day, he even assaulted Rudra. After some time, he left her and the child in Pilibhit and returned to Ghaziabad.
Pinki did not have money as Sablu never gave her any money. She somehow escaped from Pilibhit. She asked for money from strangers, telling her problems, and reached Ghaziabad. She found Sablu in the Mohan Nagar area. He then took her to a room in the Jhandapur area, where he assaulted her.
On 10 July, he took her to Loni, where he left Pinki and took her son. He told her that now that he had undergone a circumcision process, he had become Muslim and would be raised by him.
Pinki reached Mohan Nagar and found Sablu. She took her son from his captivity even though he again assaulted her. After this, she reached the police station to give a complaint against Sablu.
Find the statement recorded in the FIR here.
The FIR shows that Sablu was booked under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 326 (causing grievous hurt), 295-A (outraging religious feelings), sections 3 and 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2021 along with the section 75 and 80 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offense (POCSO) Act, 2015.
Disclaimer
A version of this report, authored by Swati Goel Sharma, was previously published in Swarajya. The present report has been independently prepared for publication on Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation. Readers who identify factual inaccuracies or require corrections may write to office@sewanyaya.in.
