Overview

• Gadag district police registered a case under BNS Sections 299 and 302 on July 16 after Vishal Kumar Gokavi filed a complaint of forced religious conversion.
• Superintendent of Police Rohan Jagadish acknowledged that Gokavi denied having any grievance when he was summoned but confirmed that formal investigation has begun.
• Gokavi alleges his wife, Tahseen Hosamani, arranged a Muslim marriage ceremony on April 25 in which his name was changed and his conversion was conducted without his consent.
• He claims Hosamani threatened to file a false rape case if he refused to convert and coerced him and his family into Islamic prayers and congregational attendance.
• A video of the April ceremony went viral online, highlighting tensions over interfaith unions and the new BNS enforcement against malicious religious conversion.