Farrukhabad, 13

Aug (HS): Mohammad Sharaf Rizvi, a native of Farrukhabad, who had entered into

a physical relationship with a Hindu woman on the pretext of marriage and then

pressured her to convert to Islam, was arrested near the Ashapuri police

outpost in the Sarnath area on Wednesday.

Assistant Police

Commissioner Vijay Pratap Singh told reporters that the accused Mohammad Sharaf

Rizvi had kept his name as Samrat Singh on the matrimonial site. Hindu girls

used to send their proposals after being deceived by the name Samrat. After

this, he used to go to meet Hindu girls and during this time he used to

blackmail them by having physical relations with them. He even used to pressure

them to change their religion in the name of marriage. He did a similar

incident with a woman living in Ashapuri area.

He said that on

the complaint of the victim Hindu woman of Sarnath police station area, a

police team was deployed and they tracked and arrested this fraudster. The

police team recovered Rs 50,570 cash, three iPhones, an Aadhar card, a PAN card

and a bag full of clothes from him. He is being sent to jail in the case

registered against him.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi