30-year-old woman marries 12th-grade student in UP after religious conversion

NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old woman, who has been married twice, has found love again, but this time with a higher secondary school student.
In Uttar Pradesh's Amroha district, the woman, previously known as Shabnam, adopted Hinduism and married a 12th-grade student in a temple on Wednesday, according to police officials.
Circle Officer Deep Kumar Pant of Hasanpur stated that the woman, now called Shivani, is an orphan with three children and has had two previous marriages.
Uttar Pradesh enforces the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, which prohibits religious conversions through coercion, deception or any fraudulent methods.
Law enforcement officials are examining the marriage details, though no formal complaints have been registered thus far.
The circle officer revealed that Shivani's first marriage was in Meerut, ending in divorce. Her second marriage was to Taufiq from Saidanwali village, who became disabled following a road incident in 2011.
She later formed a relationship with an 18-year-old student studying in Class 12. After obtaining a divorce from Taufiq the previous Friday, she embraced Hinduism and took the name Shivani.
Dataram Singh, the boy's father and Saidanwali resident, expressed his support for his son's choice whilst speaking to journalists, stating the family's contentment with the union. "We only hope that both live together peacefully," he said.