RANCHI: In a joint operation with the special cell of Delhi police, a team of Ranchi police on Tuesday night arrested Raqibul Hasan Khan alias Ranjit Kumar Kohli, accused of deceiving national shooter Tara Shahdeo into marriage and forcing her to convert to Islam, from near IGI airport, New Delhi. Ranchi DIG Praveen Kumar Singh confirmed the arrest. "He has been arrested with his mother from a place near Delhi airport," said Singh.Khan with his ailing mother had escaped from his house in Ranchi when Tara Shahdeo lodged an FIR against him alleging conversion to Islam and torture on August 22 with city's Hindpiri police station. A four member team led by two sub inspectors from Ranchi had left for Delhi on Monday after the district police received inputs that he was in Delhi."He was staying with his mother in a posh Delhi hotel for the last few days. When police raided it on Tuesday evening he had already left and the police caught him from near the airport," said a police officer.The mother, son duo would be brought to Ranchi on Wednesday.A local court had issued arrest warrant against the two of them on Monday and Ranchi police had raided his house on Monday from where it recovered important documents.After marriage Tara Shadeo, claimed, she had found that Kohli’s real name was Raqibul Hasan Khan. She said in her complaint that she was tortured for over a month to accept her husband's religion. Kumar had been charged under different sections of violence against women and also IPC section 498A (dowry) and 295A which deals with deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of a class by insulting its religious beliefs.Tara Shahdeo with Raqibul and family on their wedding day.Meanwhile, Khan contradicted her allegations in a seven-page hand-written signed letter sent by his friend on his behalf to police and also to TOI through email on Tuesday morning.He claimed that Tara forced him to financially support her family and threatened to teach him a lesson when he refused. He claimed he is Ranjit Kumar Kohli, a Hindu by birth and he never forced Tara to convert. He did not however contradict that he is a Muslim.Chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday assured the victim justice and asked Hindu outfits not to politicize the matter. Jharkhand police is preparing a report for Union home ministry which sought it on Monday. A warrant was issued against him by a local court on Monday.