India: Muslim beheaded his friend’s Hindu wife
for not converting to Islam
Imagine the international outcry if a Muslim had been beheaded after refusing to convert to any other religion, which would never happen and should never happen. But no one among the great defenders of human rights in the West will take any particular notice of this.
Bail denied to Shoeb Akhtar, who beheaded his friend’s Hindu wife for not
converting to Islam: The full details of the case and what the HC order says
OpIndia, July 12, 2024:
On the 9th of July, the Allahabad High Court denied bail to one Shoeb Akhtar, accused of beheading a Hindu girl since she refused to convert to Islam after marrying co-accused Ajaj Ahmed, in 2020.
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh found no compelling cause to release the accused on bail, taking into account the nature of the offence, the role assigned to applicant Shoeb Akhtar, and the stage of the trial. Notably, Shoeb Akhtar was booked by Chopan Police in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh under IPC sections 302 [punishment for murder] and 201 [causing the disappearance of evidence of an offence or giving false information to screen the offender].
According to the prosecution, accused Shoeb Akhtar decapitated Priya as she refused to convert to Islam after marrying co-accused and Akhtar’s friend Ajaj Ahmad.
As OpIndia reported back in 2020, accused Ajaj was unwilling to bring the Hindu victim to his home unless she converted to Islam. As the victim was reluctant to abandon her Hindu identity, Ajaj kept her in a rented room in the Obla area. Here, he was persistently pressuring the victim to convert to Islam. As the Hindu girl refused to convert, the angry Ajaj called upon another friend Shoeb Akhtar. The two Muslim youths carried Priya to a nearby forest area and killed her.
According to the horrifying details mentioned in the court order, the dead body of the Hindu girl with a chopped head was lying in the drain towards the forest on the western side of the road.
This is the second bail application moved by accused Shoeb Akhtar through his counsel Saurabh Pandey. He had earlier applied for bail through his counsel in January last year. The court, however, had rejected the plea then also “considering the facts that as per the postmortem report, death of the deceased was due to ante-mortem separation of neck from the body.”
The deceased victim’s sister Sharmila in her statement said that the Priya used to tell her how Ajaj Ahmad and his friend Shoeb Akhtar were pressurising her to convert to Islam even though she was not willing to do so. “Since deceased was not accepting Muslim religion, therefore she has been murdered by co-accused Ajaj Ahmad and present applicant- Shoeb Akhtar. Both the accused were apprehended together and on their disclosure, incriminating materials were recovered,” the court order reads….
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