Pooja Joshi, 20, was missing since Sunday, November 26, and her brother Deepak Joshi has submitted a missing person’s complaint. Police traced her and her neighbor Mohsin Khan, about 23 years old, to Bikaner, and brought them back to Jodhpur a day later.As a result Members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Jagran Manch, and other organizations protested outside Jodhpur’s Maha Mandir police station on Tuesday after news spread that a Hindu woman had eloped with a Muslim man.
The two, however, declined to go back to their homes and were kept under police protection for the night. No untoward incident was reported, the police said.
Jodhpur Assistant Superintendent of Police Shriman Lal Meena said the two were produced before a magistrate Tuesday where the girl said she wanted to stay at her uncle’s place.
The girl reportedly told the magistrate she wasn’t taken away forcibly and would marry Mohsin once he converted to Hinduism.
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