A 36 years old Sikh man in Chandigarh has filed a case suit seeking directions to restrain his Muslim wife and her relatives from forcibly converting him and his minor son to Islam.
The court of Rasveen Kaur, Civil Judge (Junior Division), has issued a notice to the defendants for July 20. The police report said that the victim is a resident of Chandigarh and has submitted that he is Sikh by religion and by birth while his wife and in-laws are Muslim by birth.
The victim’s advocate Dikshit Arora, has submitted in the petition that he met his would-be wife in 2008 while working in an office in Chandigarh. He was a store in charge and she was a salesgirl. The two became friends and she proposed to him. He said no because they came from different religions. However, she persisted and promised him that religion will never become an issue. On this, they got married as per Sikh rituals in a gurdwara at Amritsar in November 2008.
On the other hand, the victim alleges in the petition, from day one of the marriage, his wife and in- laws started forcing him to profess Muslim religion and to boycott Sikh religion. Due to this, he initially opted to stay away from his in-laws and went to Delhi where he stayed from 2008-2011. Later, he took up a job at Amritsar where he lived from 2011 to 2015.
Meanwhile, his wife gave birth to a baby boy. He alleged from day one of the births of his son, his wife and in-laws tried their best to convert the minor child to their religion but the plaintiff safeguarded him. He also alleged the other relatives of his wife, including his brothers-in-laws, also had been interfering in his married life.
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