A 25-year-old man accused of “love jehad” was beaten by a mob in front of the marriage registrar office — where he was to marry a Hindu girl — in Ghaziabad on Monday evening.
The trouble began when the couple reached the sub-registrar office. When they were filling up a form, some men in the office noticed that the man was a Muslim and the bride a Hindu.
They reportedly began asking the couple embarrassing questions. When the couple protested, a dozen men started thrashing the man. Police personnel stationed there took them in their shelter and eventually helped them escape.
Sahil, a native of Bhopal, and Preeti Singh, a native of Bijnore in western UP, work in the same company in Noida. “They decided to marry against the wishes of their parents. They wanted to register their marriage at Ghaziabad court as a friend told them that it is safer,” police said.
After the assault video went viral on social media, police registered a complaint under IPC Sections 147, 427 and 323 against Vinod and Navneet along with some unidentified persons in Sihani Gate police station. No arrest has been made so far, said Inspector Sihani Gate police station Sanjay Pandey.