New Delhi: A Hindu woman police sub-inspector (SI) went missing after filing an application in the Bareilly sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) office on Friday seeking permission to marry a Muslim businessman under the Special Marriage Act, the Indian Express reported. The Bareilly police said on Sunday that the 50-year-old woman went missing from her duty after the news was circulated in local newspapers and on social media platforms, according to the report.The woman filed the application on Friday evening and since then, both she and the 30-year-old Muslim man have been ‘untraceable’ according to the police. During an inspection at the police station where the woman was posted, a senior police officer found her absence from duty and recorded an adverse entry in the general diary (GD), the Indian Express report said. The woman’s brother has filed a complaint against the Muslim businessman with Additional Director General of Police (Bareilly Zone) Prem Chand Meena. The cop’s brother has claimed that his sister has been in a relationship with the businessman for the past years and accused him of “manipulating and blackmailing her into marriage”, the Indian Express reported. “The man possesses videos and photos of my sister, which he is using to coerce her into marrying him. To protect her from an interfaith marriage, I approached the ADG, requesting that she be transferred to either Bijnor or Shamli,” the Indian Express quoted the woman’s brother as saying. The police have said the woman came in contact with the man, a timber merchant, during her posting at the Baheri police station in Bareilly a few years ago, according to the Indian Express. In their application before the SDM, the couple stated that they would not change their religion after the marriage. The SDM office then sent notices to relevant departments and sought objections, if any, from the couple’s family members, the Indian Express reported. “The department has nothing to do with her personal life, but we will definitely seek an explanation from her for being absent without informing her seniors. While checking the status of cases pending with her for investigation, we have been informed that she has 10 cases pending that need to be investigated. She will have to give reasons for being absent from her duty without any information and also about the pending cases,” Bareilly Superintendent of Police Rahul Bhati was quoted as saying by the Indian Express.