The Uttar Pradesh police`s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested three persons from Nagpur in Maharashtra in connection with a case registered in Lucknow under UP`s anti-conversion law, an official said.

The trio was arrested from the Ganeshpeth area in Nagpur city on July 16, he said. The accused were identified as Prasad Rameshwar Kavale (from Nagpur), Kausar Alam Shaukat Ali Khan (from Jharkhand) and Bhupriya Bando Devidas Mankar (from Gadchiroli in Maharashtra), the police official in Nagpur said. The three accused were staying at Hansapuri under the jurisdiction of Ganeshpeth police station, he said.