Tara Shahdeo's husband sent to three days police custody in forced conversion case

A court in New Delhi on Wednesday granted Jharkhand Police three-day transit remand of national-level shooter Tara Shahdeo's husband, who has been accused of beating her and forcing to convert to Islam after their marriage in July.

Ranjeet Singh Kohli alias Rakibul Hasan Khan, 30, was arrested on Tuesday and produced before a court here on Wednesday.

During the in-camera proceeding, the court granted Jharkhand Police three-day transit remand of Kohli and his mother.

Kohli was arrested Tuesday night from near the Delhi-Ghaziabad border in a joint operation of Jharkhand and Delhi Police.

Tara, 23, had won the gold medal in the 2009 Eastern Zone championship.

In her police complaint, Sahdeo claimed she got married in June this year to a person named Ranjit Kohli. She said the marriage was solemnised as per Hindu rituals.

However, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when people invited her husband for Iftar, she came to know that her husband's name was Rakibul Hassan. She allegedly found the name on the invitation cards to the Iftar.

She also alleged that Hassan and 20 other people forced her to change her religion. When she refused, she was allegedly beaten up.

Sahdeo also alleged that she was threatened with dire consequences if she told anyone about the conversion. She alleges that she was kept under close vigil but when Hassan went to New Delhi on August 19, she sent a message to her family members and was rescued.