United Hindu Front activists participate in a protest against the alleged "love jihad" movement in New Delhi, on September 23, 2014. (AFP photo)

Young girls under the banner of "India Against Love Jihad" forming a human chain in Bhopal to protest against the so-called rising trend of "love jihad" cases in India. (TOI file photo)

MEERUT: Two days after the ‘victim’ of the alleged gang rape and forced conversion in Meerut made a dramatic U-turn and retracted her earlier statement, the police filed a case of assault and threat to murder against her parents on Tuesday.The woman also alleged that Vineet Agarwal , a BJP functionary, had offered her family Rs 25,000 on August 7, a few days after the incident came to light, and assured them help with more money in future.Asked if the family had received any money from Agarwal, the girl's father did not name anyone, but said, “Hindu outfits helped us with money because our financial condition was weak. This matter should not be politicized.”Agarwal said he gave the family Rs 25,000 only because he wanted to help them as they were poor.“When the case came to light, I went to the girl’s house. Because her family was poor, I helped them monetarily on humanitarian grounds,” he said. “My help should not be linked with politics. Had she been of any other religion, I would have helped just the same.”In the official complaint accessed by TOI, the woman alleges that her family started planning to kill her once the money from the BJP leader stopped coming and the security cover at the house was removed.The security cover provided to the family since August 3 was lifted on Saturday evening. The woman approached police the following day.Asked how her statement will change proceedings in court, MM Baig, SP (rural), said, “A chargesheet has already been filed in the case on August 3, and 10 people are under arrest. If the girl does not retract her latest statement, the case will witness a U-turn.”The woman’s father denied her allegations and said to TOI, “She has been living with us for the last two-and-a-half months. If we had to kill her, why would we wait so long?”The father claimed that Muslim groups were “putting pressure” on his daughter to change her statement and demanded a CBI probe into the matter.The 22-year-old had alleged in August that she was gang-raped at a Muzaffarnagar madrassa, where several other women were also held captive. She had also alleged that she was forced to convert to Islam.