The Home Ministry has amended the FCRA 2011 act, asking the NGO officeholders and members to declare that they are not prosecuted and convicted of religious conversions
43-year-old Baldev Kumar is a former MLA from Pakistan's Barikot reserved seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Kumar said he wants political asylum in India as minorities are being persecuted in Pakistan.
Rajesh Kumar, the father of the victim, has alleged that his daughter was blackmailed by one Salman Suhel over some private images and was later kidnapped to be forcefully converted into Islam.
Reportedly, the Pakistani man who forcibly converted and married the Sikh girl is affiliated to 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's proscribed terror outfit Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (JuD).