India, June 21 -- Police have launched a search operation for a 23-year-old man who was reportedly pushed into the Upper Ganga Canal near Masuri by a 35-year-old woman and her accomplices on Saturday over an alleged property dispute, police officials said.

Deputy commissioner of police (rural) Surendra Nath Tiwari said local divers were pressed in and a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was also roped in to trace the missing man.

The 23-year-old's brother claimed that the man was arrested in 2024 for allegedly raping the woman and violating the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, though the case was later settled.

He alleged: "My brother was released in 2025 and the 35-year-old woman started demanding ...