{"id":479790,"date":"2023-07-06T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=479790"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:38:42","slug":"gujarat-man-rape-love-jihad-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/gujarat-man-rape-love-jihad-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking: Gujarat man held for raping girl, police call it love jihad case, parade him publicly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Gujarat police arrested a man for allegedly raping and blackmailing a girl for the last five years. The accused has been identified as Asim Nizam Shaikh, a resident of Khergam town of the Navsari district in Gujarat. The accused was arrested on Tuesday from Vasai near Mumbai reportedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navsari police on Wednesday paraded 37-year-old Shaikh after securing his remand from a court. Police took him through the street of Khergam and forced him to apologise to the public. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people present during the parade shouted Jai Shree Ram and showered rose petals on the police personnel for making the Shaikh parade on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Navsari district police arrested the main accused in the case of love jihad. In Navsari&#39;s Khergam, Navsari district police arrested the main accused, Asim Shaikh, in the case of love jihad. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/surat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#surat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oursuratcity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oursuratcity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newsupdate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newsupdate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/suratnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#suratnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/suratcity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#suratcity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gujarat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gujarat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/update?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#update<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/city?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#city<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EJOeyE9bf9\">pic.twitter.com\/EJOeyE9bf9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Our Surat (@oursuratcity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oursuratcity\/status\/1676573179035394048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has been labeled as love jihad, as per the police statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the police, the victim was raped for the first time five years ago when she was just 16. Police added, Shaikh also recorded a video of raping a girl and used it to blackmail her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accused had framed a plan to protect himself from the police. Shaikh, who has been married and has children, forced the victim to marry his friend, Ronak Patel, the police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaikh\u2019s accomplice, Ronak Patel, was behind bars in a murder case. He came out on parole recently. A warrant was issued by the police, but he has not been apprehended yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim has filed a complaint against both Shaikh and Patel at the police station. The case was registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, and the Information Technology Act at Khergam police station on June 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police have been searching for both Shaikh and Patel after the FIR was registered. As per the reports, Shaikh left for Mumbai from Jaipur and stayed at a hotel in Vasai. Police caught him from Vasai on Tuesday and brought him to Gujarat, said Navsari district Superintendent of Police Rushikesh Upadhyay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accused had framed a plan to protect himself from the police. 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