Indian woman says she suffered miscarriage after being detained under new interfaith marriage law

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A 22-year-old Indian woman whose new husband and brother-in-law were arrested under a controversial new law targeting interfaith marriages has alleged that she suffered a miscarriage after being given an injection during her detention. Ms Jahan’s ordeal took place in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which recently passed a law cracking down on unlawful religious conversions, including those for the purpose of marriage. And it comes amid a wider movement among right-wing Hindu groups against “Love Jihad”, an Islamophobic conspiracy theory that maintains Muslim men are conspiring to convert Hindu women through seduction or forced marriage. Several saffron-clad men reportedly took the couple to Moradabad’s Kaanth police station, where Rashid and his brother were arrested on charges of coercing a woman into converting from Hinduism to Islam by marrying her, and booked under Section 3 of the new anti-conversion law.