Hina, a Pilibhit resident, filed a complaint with Bareilly police around a month and a half after their marriage, alleging Pandit Shankhdhar of forcing her to embrace Hinduism. Hina has also accused her husband, Prem Shankar Gupta, and her brother-in-law of tricking her into marriage.
SP Rahul Bhati said, "Police teams have been deployed to search for Mohammed Alam. The postmortem of the body is being done. The accused will be caught soon."
The accused during the interrogation confirmed to the Bareilly police that he abducted the girl and changed her name to Mariyam. The girl meanwhile confirmed that she was raped for around 2 months and forced to convert her religion to Islam.
The report said that the head bones of Tejram were damaged during his lynching as a result of strikes from large stones and iron rods, and blood clots had developed in his brain.