AGRA (UP): (Jul 20) The father of two sisters in Agra, whose missing persons complaint about his girls exposed an illegal religious conversion racket and led to the arrest of 10 people from six states, claimed on Sunday that his daughters were “brainwashed” by some Kashmiri girls.

According to police, the probe began in March after the two sisters, aged 33 and 18, were reported missing. Investigations revealed that they were allegedly coerced into religious conversion and were undergoing radicalisation, they said.

One of the sisters had also put a photo of a girl holding an AK-47 rifle as her profile picture on a social media platform, police said.