A Muslim man from India’s Uttar Pradesh state has been arrested after beingaccused of attempting to convert a Hindu woman to Islam through marriage,*BBC* reportedlinkonThursday.

He is reported to be the first man to have been booked under acontroversial new “love jihad” law approved by the country’s Hindunationalist government last week. The law lays out prison terms for anyone”compelling others to convert their faith or luring them into theseconversions through marriage”, according to a *Reuters* report.

The law has sparked outrage, with critics terming it Islamophobic. AfterUP, four other states are reported to be preparing to bring in similarlegislation.

According to* BBC*, the man, arrested on Wednesday, was accused by a Hinduwoman’s father of “putting pressure” on his daughter to convert and of even”threatening her” with consequences if she didn’t.

The woman was reported to have been in a relationship with the man but shegot married to someone else earlier this year.

Furthermore, according to the report, the man had earlier been accused ofkidnapping the woman by her family, but after she denied any such thing,the case was dropped.

The man has been sent to jail on judicial remand for 14 days. He was quotedby *BBC* as saying he has “no link with the woman”.