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Mau (UP), Nov 15 (PTI) A case was registered here after a 25-year-old Hindu man from UP’s Mau district was allegedly forcibly converted to Islam after being taken to Assam and married, police said on Saturday.

Additional Superintendent of Police Anoop Kumar said that the man, identified as Vishal Singh, worked at a dental clinic. A case has been registered in this connection on Wednesday under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.

He said that a detailed investigation is being conducted to determine the circumstances under which he was forced to convert.

“Legal action will be taken against those found guilty," he said.

Police sources told PTI that Vishal Singh’s family had moved a local court, and based on its orders, the c

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