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Gurugram Police Arrest Two in Alleged Identity-Fraud Marriage, Conversion Coercion Case

Police say interrogation indicates a planned approach through an insurance contact, with the investigation still active.

Overview

  • An FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act was filed at Sector 14 police station against the main accused and six others.
  • Arif Khan, who allegedly posed as 'Aarav', and associate Tarif Khan, both from Dhunela village, were arrested after the woman’s complaint and hospital examination.
  • The woman says the accused introduced himself as an unmarried Hindu and married her at a temple on November 4, 2022.
  • She alleges he pressured her to abort, threatened to leak private videos, and that his family assaulted her, coerced conversion, and called her 'Ziya Khan'.
  • After fleeing to Bihar with her newborn and returning to Gurugram, she reported a January 26 assault at her rented home; police collected a medico-legal report and recorded her statement before making the arrests.