A shocking case of brutal murder following Nikah-linked religious conversion of a Dalit woman recently came to light from the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, the accused Mohammad Alam (35) from Hapur murdered Pooja Devi, his 33-year-old wife, and disposed of her body in a canal. According to the information shared on X by Swarajya senior editor, Swati Goel Sharma, it is alleged that Alam also sexually harassed Puja’s minor daughter from an earlier marriage.
Sharma spoke with Sumit Kumar, the brother-in-law of the deceased victim. He told her that he has been associated with Bhim Army, the Dalit outfit headed by Nagina MP Chandrashekhar aka Ravan. However, he lamented that for political reasons, the Dalit outfit has not extended any support to the aggrieved family.
For 8 years, Sumit Kumar has been a senior member of Bhim Army – a ‘Dalit organisation’ headed by Chandrashekhar Ravan and named after Bhimrao Ambedkar
— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) July 31, 2024
But last week when his sister-in-law Pooja was murdered by her partner Mohammed Alam, six months after her conversion-nikah,… pic.twitter.com/y9ZtfzvMjI
He told Sharma, “Bypolls for [Ghaziabad Sadar] assembly seat are due and the organisation doesn’t want to lose Muslim votes.”
After meeting the aggrieved family, Sharma stated that Pooja’s 11-year-old daughter from her first marriage revealed that the accused Alam also used to sexually harass her.
There is much left to be done in the case @ghaziabadpolice have arrested Alam and put out a press note that he has confessed to killing Pooja. BUT….
— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) July 31, 2024
Police have not yet recovered Pooja’s body yet. So Alam has not even booked yet for murder, just for kidnapping for…
According to reports, Alam killed his partner Pooja nearly six months after he made her convert to Islam to do Nikah. He was already married with four children and didn’t want to keep her with him. The police had registered a case and arrested the accused on 24th July. They have revealed that Alam confessed to his crime and killing Pooja but her body has still not been found.
According to reports, Mohammad Alam was in a live-in relationship with Pooja for at least four years. She was at odds with her first husband. She insisted on living with the perpetrator which angered him and he strangled her to death with her dupatta and threw the body in the Ganga canal. Afterward, he also filed a missing person report with the police on the same day. Click here, to read how Police arrested Alam who tried to avoid suspicion and filed a missing person’s complaint in this matter.
#PoliceCommissionerateGhaziabad
— POLICE COMMISSIONERATE GHAZIABAD (@ghaziabadpolice) July 24, 2024
थाना विजयनगर पुलिस टीम द्वारा महिला की गुमशुदगी/अपहरण की घटना का अनावरण, एक अभियुक्त गिरफ्तार व घटना में प्रयुक्त कार बरामद।@Uppolice pic.twitter.com/Tm9d3ErM25
The matter came to light when Pooja’s sister Poonam approached the authorities and lodged a complaint that her sister had been missing for a few days.
