15-year-old girl from Phulpur lured to Kerala, where she was forced to convert and engage in terror activities; two accused arrested
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh). A case has come to light in which a 15-year-old Dalit girl from Prayagraj district was lured to Kerala and forced to convert and engage in terror activities. Giving information about this on Monday, the police claimed to have busted an alleged radical network.
According to the police, the conspiracy came to light when the teenager escaped from their clutches in Kerala and contacted her mother with the help of local police. Two accused have been arrested in the case.
According to the report published in HT, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Kuldeep Singh Gunawat said that on May 8, this girl was allegedly lured from a village in Phulpur area. Somehow she reached Thrissur railway station and called her mother from there.
The DCP said, “The teenager was being forced to join jihadi activities. After contacting Kerala, she was brought back to Prayagraj and is currently kept in a one stop center for security reasons.”
The police have arrested 19-year-old Daraksha Bano and Mohammad Kaif. Apart from them, a case has also been registered against an unknown person who had threatened the victim’s family over the phone.
In the preliminary interrogation, the teenager told that the same gang was trying to recruit other minor girls by targeting them.
On June 26, the victim’s mother had lodged a written complaint at the Phulpur police station that her daughter was lured and taken away. After approaching the police, she also received threatening calls from an unknown number.
According to DCP Gunawat, the girl was first lured with money and introduced to some suspicious people, then forcibly converted and later pressured to join terrorist activities.
According to the victim’s statement, Kaif drove her to Prayagraj Junction railway station on a motorcycle and molested her during this time. Daraksha Bano then took her to Delhi by train and then to Kerala, where she was introduced to unknown people associated with the radical network.
The DCP said that the accused were working as an organised gang who were conspiring to mislead the girls and push them into anti-national and terrorist activities.
The police have formed three special teams to investigate the case thoroughly, which are engaged in exposing the entire network.
Courtesy : Rajan Chaudhary, Hindi News