Ahmedabad Police arrested one individual identified as Mohammad Shehbaz on 31st August in a theft case on a Vande Bharat train in Gujarat. However, he is also involved in a ‘Love Jihad’ case. According to the media reports, he used a false Hindu name to trap and marry a Hindu girl. While the Aligarh Police had booked the accused in the case and he has been handed now over to the Ahmedabad Police.
Shahbaz was arrested by Ahmedabad police in connection with a theft on the Vande Bharat train. A fake ID card named, ‘Major Harshit Chaudhary’ was also recovered in his possession. Shehbaz is a resident of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh and he not only created a fake Aadhaar card with a Hindu name, but he also preserved a false army officer card despite not being in the army. During the police interrogation, he confessed that he had used his false identity to marry a Hindu woman.
According to the media reports, the accused had stolen a trolley bag of one of the passengers from the Vande Bhart train. The police found that the accused had reserved a seat under the name ‘Harshit Manoj Singh Chaudhary’ after reviewing the train’s CCTV footage and passenger chart. The police followed him away and arrested him, and he confessed to having generated a bogus ID of ‘Harshit Chaudhary’. It was discovered that he had joined the Army in 2015 but was expelled from the Army being unfit as of June 2024.
Shehbaz used a fake Aadhaar card with a Hindu identity, a PAN card, and a false ID card of an army major for railway and plane travel. He also entrapped a Hindu girl originally from Jharkhand by adopting a Hindu identity. A case has been filed against him in Aligarh in this regard.
During the interrogation, one of the women called him and the woman told the police that Harshit Chaudhary was her husband and had not returned home for a long time. Later, the police told the girl that the person she believed to be her husband was not Harshit but Mohammad Shehbaz. The girl said that she never knew that the man she had married was a Muslim and she then lodged a complaint against Shehbaz at a police station in Aligarh.
According to the media reports, the girl went to Aligarh’s Banna Devi police station and lodged a complaint on September 8th. ‘She originally hails from Chaibasa in Jharkhand’, the girl said in the complaint. Mohammad Shehbaz contacted her through shaadi.com and identified himself as ‘Harshit Chowdhury’, claiming to be an army man. He also created a fake Aadhaar card and an ID card of an Army major to obtain the woman’s trust.
Shehbaz called the girl to Aligarh and got married to her as per Hindu rituals on March 5th, 2023 in a temple and then took a rented house in Aligarh and made the girl stay there. In the police complaint, the girl said that after marriage, Shehbaz’s behavior changed and he left her alone. He told her that he wasn’t allowed to go on leave by the Army authorities.
She also said that he forcefully made sexual relations with her and threatened to kill her if she refused. During the police investigation, it was found that Shehbaz is already married and that he has two children
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