Apoorva Puranik turned Arfa Bano yet was stabbed 23 times [Karnataka, India]

[Reported as seen]

Apoorva Puranik turned Arfa Bano, one of the recent victims of an alleged Love Jihad Karnataka’s Gadag is currently under treatment at a local hospital in the city after she was attacked by her estranged husband Mohammad Ijaz, who had stabbed her 23 times with a machete as ‘revenge’ for leaving him.

According to Chiru Bhat, in her latest statement, Apoorva has revealed that Ijaz had first sexually assaulted her, video recorded the act, and blackmailed her for marriage. He threatened to hurt me and my mother, she has added.
“When I agreed to the marriage, he asked me to convert to Islam. I had to sign all documents as I had no choice. I must say this is nothing but Love Jihad. Even after marriage, he was not taking care of me. I was brainwashed. I didn’t even listen to my parents,” the journalist quoted the victim.

The 26-year-old victim also said Ijaz asked her to cook and consume nonveg after their marriage. She added that she was treated like a dog after she delivered a baby.

“Ijaz used to feed meat to my baby forcibly. Only after my marriage, did I come to know that he was married for 14 years to his first wife,” she said.

Apoorva also said that Ijaz used to send some vulgar messages in Urdu as she left him. She said she ignored those messages because their divorce matter was in court, but just one day before the court hearing, Ijaz attacked me, she said.

After the marriage, Apoorva was forced to convert to Islam. She changed her name to Arfa Bano and followed Islamic traditions such as wearing a burqa, hijab, etc. Apoorva even started consuming meat and completely abandoned Hindu traditions after Ijaz forced her to convert to Islam. Apoorva’s family also reconciled with her daughter and began to have a cordial relationship with the daughter and Ijaz. The couple also had a son.

A few months later, Apoorva, who comes from a well-to-do Brahmin family in the city, found out that Ijaz had concealed information about his first marriage. Reportedly, Ijaz had already married a Muslim woman before his wedding with Apoorva and had fathered three children. As she learned about Ijaz’s first marriage, Apoorva left Ijaz and shifted to her parent’s residence in the Gadag district along with her two-year-old son. She had also filed for divorce at a local court after Ijaz began to torture her.