In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the imam of one of the mosques was under arrest under absurd circumstances.

Phoolan Singh, a 25-year-old Hindu resident of Firouzabad, kidnapped a 15-year-old Hindu girl and brought her to one of the local mosques. In the mosque, the attacker found the imam and began to demand that nikah be held between him and the kidnapped woman.

Imam Shamim was amazed at the stranger's demand and explained to him that the Islamic marriage ceremony could not be performed for a Hindu couple, because it was not a registry office, but a mosque. Then Singh began to threaten the imam with violence, and he had to pretend that he agreed to conduct nikah.

At this time, the police raided the mosque and first of all arrested the imam, charging him with holding a religious ceremony with "forced conversion to Islam," Siasat reports. Under Indian law, it is a criminal offense to marry if the person to be married for this converts to Islam.

Subsequently, it turned out that the Hindu intended to marry the kidnapped girl in order to subsequently sell her into slavery in another city, where he had already found buyers for her. Despite the absurdity of what happened, the police did not remove suspicion from Imam Shamim, and he remains under investigation. “How can I ever have a nikah between two Hindus?” - the imam, who has become another victim of police brutality and Islamophobia in India, is perplexed.

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