The JJ Marg police registered a case against 17 people belonging to Mansuri Kathiawad Samaj community for allegedly asking people to socially boycott a couple for inter-caste marriage. The man’s father filed a complaint with the police alleging harassment from community leaders who were visiting every home in the area and asking people to boycott his family.

According to the officers of the JJ Marg police station, Ahmed Raza (23), son of Abdul Ghaffar Mansuri (49), living in Jambil Mohalla near Bhendi Bazar got married on April 25, 2019, with Urusu Fatima, who lives in the same area and belongs Gachi Muslim community. Before the wedding, Mansuri went to inform the president of his community Javed Mussoorie about his son marrying outside the community, the president took strict objection and had threatened that if the wedding takes place then their entire family will be boycotted socially.