Srinagar/ March,29: Awoman of Barmer district of Gujarat, who went missing on March 16, has converted to Islam and married to a Kashmiri man, even as her father alleged that she had been kidnapped from Ahmedabad.
In a press conference, the woman, Ritu Khandelwal’s father Ganesh Kumar said that she had neither converted nor married the Kashmiri man. “We fear that she’s been brainwashed and her life is in danger,” he told reporters, according to Hindustan Times.
Ritu, according to the report, went missing on March 16 from her home, and when her family registered a missing person’s report, the police found that she was in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The woman, according to the police, had converted to Islam in December last year and married a Kashmiri man, keeping her family in the dark.
The Barmer police said that they have received an order from the Jammu and Kashmir high court on March 22 to provide security to the couple so that no harm is caused to them. According to the Barmer police, the court had passed the order on February 20, but it reached Barmer on March 22.
Ritu’s father alleged that the documents produced in the Jammu and Kashmir high court have been forged using his daughter’s fake signatures. “She took history exam on December 20 at Barmer College and has been at her aunt’s in Mumbai from December 26 to January 3,” said her father, adding that she couldn’t have converted on December 27 and married on December 30 when she was in Mumbai.
