Kerala HC says not all inter-religious marriages are 'love jihad', terms re-conversion centres unconstitutional
7 years, 5 months ago

Kerala HC says not all inter-religious marriages are 'love jihad', terms re-conversion centres unconstitutional

Firstpost  

The Kerala High Court on Thursday held that all inter-religious weddings cannot be viewed as love jihad as it upheld a marriage between a Hindu woman and a Muslim man. Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday held that all inter-religious weddings cannot be viewed as love jihad as it upheld a marriage between a Hindu woman and a Muslim man. “We are appalled to notice the recent trend in this state to sensationalise every case of inter-religious marriage as either love jihad or ghar wapsi even if there was platonic love between the spouses before,” the court said. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” It may recalled that another division bench of the Kerala High Court had in May annulled the marriage of a 24-year-old woman with a Muslim man after allegedly forced to convert to Islam, terming it as an instance of love jihad.

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61% oppose interfaith marriages; Chandigarh shocks, Kerala soothes: GDB survey
6 days, 22 hours ago

61% oppose interfaith marriages; Chandigarh shocks, Kerala soothes: GDB survey

India Today  

India, a land of diversity, might not be married happily to the concept of interfaith marriages. Sixty-one per cent of people were opposed to interfaith marriages, according to the inaugural India Today Gross Domestic Behaviour survey. Interreligious and inter-caste marriages have never been easy in India, which has seen a number of killings in the name of family "honour". 56% …

Kerala BJP leader's love jihad comment gets support of Syro-Malabar Church
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Kerala BJP leader's love jihad comment gets support of Syro-Malabar Church

India Today  

The Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala has come out in support of BJP leader PC George, who is facing backlash for his controversial remarks on ‘love jihad’. In a statement, the Syro-Malabar Church Public Affairs Commission defended George, stating that his comments on “drug trafficking, love traps, and terrorist activities” at a conference in Pala were based on facts. George, currently …

'Over 400 Christian girls go missing in a Kerala town': PC George urges people to marry off daughters early to ward off Love Jihad threat
2 weeks, 4 days ago

'Over 400 Christian girls go missing in a Kerala town': PC George urges people to marry off daughters early to ward off Love Jihad threat

Op India  

On Saturday, March 8, 2025, BJP leader P.C. Addressing the Christian community, he urged them to marry off their daughters before the age of 24 to prevent them from becoming victims of “love jihad.” He claimed that over 400 Christian girls in the Meenachil taluk alone had fallen prey to this menace. However, concerns about “love jihad” have been growing …

Athawale opposes Maharashtra govt's 'love jihad' law plan, says PM considers all as equal
1 month, 1 week ago

Athawale opposes Maharashtra govt's 'love jihad' law plan, says PM considers all as equal

The Hindu  

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday opposed the Maharashtra government's move to draft a law to stop "love jihad". The Maharashtra government has issued a Government Resolution stating that a committee headed by the director general of police will suggest steps to tackle complaints of "love jihad" and forced conversions. Speaking reporters in Nagpur earlier in the day, Chief Minister …

‘Inter-faith marriage not wrong but…’: Devendra Fadnavis as Maharashtra sets up panel to frame ‘love jihad’ law
1 month, 1 week ago

‘Inter-faith marriage not wrong but…’: Devendra Fadnavis as Maharashtra sets up panel to frame ‘love jihad’ law

Live Mint  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday that it is not wrong for a person of one religion to marry a person of another religion. Fadnavis said the Supreme Court and Kerala High Court have made observations about the reality of "love jihad". Committee against 'love jihad' Fadnavis' statement came after the Maharashtra government set up a seven-member committee …

Maharashtra to soon get a law on Love Jihad
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra to soon get a law on Love Jihad

Deccan Chronicle  

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has formed a seven-member committee to examine the legal framework for a potential law against forced religious conversions and cases of “love jihad”. According to a Government Resolution, the committee will study the prevailing situation in the state and suggest steps to tackle the complaints of “love jihad” and forced conversions. BJP leader and state minister …

Love Jihad: SC dismisses PIL to expunge Bareilly court observation
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Jihad: SC dismisses PIL to expunge Bareilly court observation

Op India  

On Thursday, the Supreme Court lambasted a man for attempting to “sensationalise” the observations made by the Bareilly Court wherein the district court had warned against Pakistan and Bangladesh-style religious conversions while convicting one Mohammed Alim in a Love Jihad case. Anas, therefore, approached the Supreme Court claiming that the observations made by the Bareilly Court in a ‘Love Jihad’ …

Love Across Divides: The Complex Lives of Hindu-Muslim Couples in India
5 months ago

Love Across Divides: The Complex Lives of Hindu-Muslim Couples in India

The Hindu  

The article explores the complex lives of Hindu-Muslim couples in India, examining the challenges and choices they face in navigating religious differences and societal norms. Through in-depth interviews with couples, the book challenges the harmful stereotypes and prejudices surrounding Hindu-Muslim relationships, highlighting the love and commitment that transcends religious boundaries. The author sheds light on the internal conflicts faced by …

‘Love Jihad’ being waged by certain community, poses major threat to nation’s unity: U.P. court judge
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Love Jihad’ being waged by certain community, poses major threat to nation’s unity: U.P. court judge

The Hindu  

The objective of “love jihad” is to establish dominance by certain anti-social elements of a particular religion against India through demographic warfare and international conspiracy, a local court here has observed. Additional District Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar said Hindu girls are being lured into “love” for the sake of illegal conversions and create conditions similar to those in Pakistan and …

Love Jihad in UP: Muslim youth marries Hindu girl under false pretences; converts her and feeds her beef
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Jihad in UP: Muslim youth marries Hindu girl under false pretences; converts her and feeds her beef

Op India  

A shocking case of love jihad has come to light in Uttar Pradesh where a young Muslim man first trapped a Hindu girl from Bihar into love jihad by lying about his identity, started a romantic relationship with her and then brought her to Bareilly’s Dargah-e-Aala Hazrat. The matter pertains to Sunni Nagar of the Baheri police station area. When …

Bizarre judgment: On the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Bizarre judgment: On the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order

The Hindu  

It is an old principle that ignorance of law is no excuse. The Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order ruling declining to give protection to a couple on the ground that a marriage between a Muslim man and a Hindu woman will not be valid, even if registered under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, reflects an incredible misunderstanding of the law. …

Kerala: Islamic cleric slams Communists for helping Muslim girls marry non-Muslims
1 year, 3 months ago

Kerala: Islamic cleric slams Communists for helping Muslim girls marry non-Muslims

Op India  

Several incidents of Love Jihad and violence by Islamists have emerged from the state of Kerala in the recent past, drawing attention to the concerns regarding the safety of non-Muslim women. Thr Catholic organizations in Kerala too have complained repeatedly about incidents of love jihad where Christian girls are targeted and brainwashed by love affairs, then converted to Islam. Non-Muslim …

Bhagwa Love Trap – a figment of Islamist imagination, created merely to harass Hindu men and counter real cases of Love Jihad, claiming lives of Hindu women
1 year, 5 months ago

Bhagwa Love Trap – a figment of Islamist imagination, created merely to harass Hindu men and counter real cases of Love Jihad, claiming lives of Hindu women

Op India  

Love jihad is said to be a figment of the imagination of India’s ‘extreme Hindu religious organisations’. In certain cases, Muslim men who have been captured with Hindu girls by Bajrang Dal activists have admitted to receiving training and money from particular Mosques or Madrassa for suspected Love Jihad, and the incentives are remitted while keeping the girl’s social and …

The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics
1 year, 6 months ago

The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics

Hindustan Times  

Bins Abraham owns a 12-acre rubber plantation in Erattupetta, a plantation town nestled in the foothills of the Western Ghats. Though the term “love jihad” was coined by Right-wing Hindu groups in 2007, the Catholic Church in Kerala began to use it as an instrument to discourage inter-religious marriages. In January 2020, the synod or highest administrative body of Syro-Malabar …

Want peaceful co-existence between Hindus & Muslims, but love jihad…: Himanta
1 year, 7 months ago

Want peaceful co-existence between Hindus & Muslims, but love jihad…: Himanta

India Today  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has been vocal against 'love jihad', said on Saturday said it must be stopped as it creates tension in society. Sarma, who was speaking to reporters at Bongaigaon after a two-day convention of police superintendents of the state, said he wants peaceful co-existence among Hindus and Muslims in the state but "Issues like …

Their homes were marked with black X signs. Now Muslims in India are leaving Himalayan towns in fear for their lives
1 year, 9 months ago

Their homes were marked with black X signs. Now Muslims in India are leaving Himalayan towns in fear for their lives

The Independent  

When angry marchers filed past their Himalayan home, Naaz and her husband Irfan* were among the Muslims cowering in a back room, braced for violence. Several right-wing groups, including the prominent Hindu organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad, labelled the abduction a case of “love jihad” – a right-wing, Islamophobic conspiracy theory that claims Muslim fundamentalists are plotting to convert Hindu and …

OPINION | HOW TO PREVENT ‘LOVE JIHAD’
1 year, 9 months ago

OPINION | HOW TO PREVENT ‘LOVE JIHAD’

India TV News  

LOVE JIHAD : Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s youth outfit Bajrang Dal has announced that it would set up “Anti-Romeo Force” to protect Hindu daughters if police fails to stop incidents of ‘love jihad’. After a jilted Muslim lover Sahil stabbed a Hindu girl Sakshi to death, it was found that he was wearing ‘kalaava’ and a ‘rudraksh mala’ to fool the …

The Kerala Story: Dirty Secrets Tumble out of Left-‘Liberal’ Closet as India Discusses ‘Love Jihad’ - News18
1 year, 10 months ago

The Kerala Story: Dirty Secrets Tumble out of Left-‘Liberal’ Closet as India Discusses ‘Love Jihad’ - News18

News 18  

The Kerala Story is now banned in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal. Human rights and women’s rights and immigrants’ rights.” When Aiyar asked what he would have done had he been a European policymaker, pat came the reply: “I would change their laws to stop all this immigration.” It is this liberal proclivity to turn a blind eye to growing Islamist assertion …

Time for 'liberals' to wake up and smell 'The Kerala Story': Love jihad is real and not figment of Hindutva imagination
1 year, 10 months ago

Time for 'liberals' to wake up and smell 'The Kerala Story': Love jihad is real and not figment of Hindutva imagination

Firstpost  

The Kerala Story is now banned in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal. Human rights and women’s rights and immigrants’ rights.” When Aiyar asked what he would have done had he been a European policymaker, pat came the reply: “I would change their laws to stop all this immigration.” It is this liberal proclivity to turn a blind eye to growing Islamist assertion …

Video of former Kerala CM Achuthanandan warning about Islamist agenda in old interview goes viral
1 year, 10 months ago

Video of former Kerala CM Achuthanandan warning about Islamist agenda in old interview goes viral

Op India  

Amidst the ongoing controversy over the movie “The Kerala Story,” a clip from an old interview of former Kerala Chief Minister and Communist Party of India-Marxist stalwart V S Achuthanandan from the year 2010 is making the rounds on social media. While Kerala Catholic Bishops Council had asserted that more than 4,500 girls in Kerala have been the target of …

Inter-faith couples face harassment, threats and violence: Madhya Pradesh High Court
1 year, 11 months ago

Inter-faith couples face harassment, threats and violence: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Hindu  

Holding that “the societal opposition to interreligion marriage often makes it difficult for couples to exercise their legal rights”, the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on April 18 quashed a three-year-old case of cheating against a married couple from Ujjain and the manager of a temple where their marriage was performed. Emphasising on the harassment faced by …

BJP MLC Demands Law Against ‘Love Jihad’ in Maharashtra, Fadnavis Says Govt Mulling Legal Solution
2 years ago

BJP MLC Demands Law Against ‘Love Jihad’ in Maharashtra, Fadnavis Says Govt Mulling Legal Solution

News 18  

Worried about alleged forced religious conversions in rural Maharashtra, BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar has demanded an anti-conversion law in the Legislative Council. Speaking in the Legislative Council, Padalkar said that for the past few months, the Hindu Garjana group has been organising protests across the state against so-called ‘love jihad’, and alleged cow slaughter. In response, deputy chief minister Fadnavis …

Just because boy and girl are from different religions, it's not 'Love Jihad': Bombay HC
2 years ago

Just because boy and girl are from different religions, it's not 'Love Jihad': Bombay HC

India Today  

While granting protection from arrest to four residents of Aurangabad, the Bombay High Court has said that merely because the boy and girl in a relationship are from different religions, it cannot be given the colour of ‘Love Jihad’. The bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Abhay Waghwase of the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court granted pre-arrest bail …

53 per cent of respondents believe Muslim males indulge in love jihad: India Today survey
2 years, 2 months ago

53 per cent of respondents believe Muslim males indulge in love jihad: India Today survey

Op India  

The India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation survey indicated on Thursday that 53 per cent of the over 1.40 lakh respondents believed that Muslim men indulge in ‘love jihad’. India Today survey says 53% Muslims believe in Love jihad. See https://t.co/SE2dAO4aE4 I have quoted Islamic testimony which says Islam spreads by marriage and “via Bed Room” pic.twitter.com/zN2SEb4CEx — S Gurumurthy …

Why Maharashtra panel on interfaith marriages has sparked outcry
2 years, 3 months ago

Why Maharashtra panel on interfaith marriages has sparked outcry

India Today  

The Maharashtra government has set up a 13-member committee to monitor interfaith marriages, raising larger questions around issues such as privacy and the right to personal choice. On December 13, the state government issued a government resolution appointing the committee under minister for women and child development Mangal Prabhat Lodha.The ‘Inter-caste/ Interfaith Marriage-Family Coordination Committee ’ was tasked with maintaining …

Maharashtra's Inter-faith & Inter-caste Marriage Committee: How It Will Work, Benefit Women
2 years, 3 months ago

Maharashtra's Inter-faith & Inter-caste Marriage Committee: How It Will Work, Benefit Women

News 18  

In a unique step, the Maharashtra government has set up a committee to gather information on the inter-faith and inter-caste marriage couples and the maternal families of the women involved if they are estranged, with its head and state minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha saying the move is aimed at avoiding a repeat of the Shraddha Walkar case. A Government Resolution …

Pro-Hindu groups demand separate law against Love Jihad in Karnataka
2 years, 3 months ago

Pro-Hindu groups demand separate law against Love Jihad in Karnataka

India Today  

Pro-Hindu organisations have demanded a separate law against Love Jihad in the state of Karnataka. Meanwhile, posters by pro-Hindu organisations have emerged in Puttur city stating the need for a law against Love Jihad in the state. The poster also says that Love Jihad was the reason behind Aftab murdering Shraddha and chopping her into 35 pieces. “To save such …

Islamic law recognises Muslim woman's right to demand divorce, husband's consent not needed: Kerala HC
2 years, 4 months ago

Islamic law recognises Muslim woman's right to demand divorce, husband's consent not needed: Kerala HC

India Today  

The Kerala High Court has said that the Islamic law recognises a Muslim woman's right to demand termination of marriage. Dismissing a review petition against a judgment wherein the court had recognised a Muslim woman's right to resort to khula, the division bench of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque and Justice CS Dias said, "In the absence of any mechanism in …

Kerala High Court Deprecates Attempts Of Caste Groups To "Hijack" Reformers Like Sree Narayana Guru & Ayyankali
2 years, 5 months ago

Kerala High Court Deprecates Attempts Of Caste Groups To "Hijack" Reformers Like Sree Narayana Guru & Ayyankali

Live Law  

In a significant order, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday held that the religion of the parties is not a consideration for registering marriages under the Kerala Registration of Marriages Rules, 2008. While passing the order, Justice P. V. Kunhikrishnan quoting the famous words of 'Sree Narayana Guru', which says that this is a place where people reside in brotherhood …

Former CPM MLA George Thomas 'Publicly Censured' by Party for 'Love Jihad' Remark
2 years, 11 months ago

Former CPM MLA George Thomas 'Publicly Censured' by Party for 'Love Jihad' Remark

News 18  

CPIM leader and former MLA George M Thomas was publicly censured by the party for his controversial remarks on ‘Love Jihad’ as he called it a “reality” and said, “interfaith marriage by a party worker shattered the religious harmony in the region”. Joining the community’s concern, Thomas had said the young comrade’s action “has shattered the communal harmony in the …

Kerala HC declines 'love jihad' plea after Christian woman marries Muslim man
2 years, 11 months ago

Kerala HC declines 'love jihad' plea after Christian woman marries Muslim man

Hindustan Times  

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to interfere in the marriage of a Christian woman to a Muslim man, observing 'she has taken a decision. The appeal against the marriage - alleged as a case of 'love jihad' - was filed by the woman's father, who told the court his daughter had been illegally detained and filed a habeas …

DYFI Muslim Leader Marries Christian Woman, Ignites Political Row: Kerala HC Disposes Habeas Moved By Her Father Alleging Love Jihad
2 years, 11 months ago

DYFI Muslim Leader Marries Christian Woman, Ignites Political Row: Kerala HC Disposes Habeas Moved By Her Father Alleging Love Jihad

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday disposed of a habeas corpus plea moved by the father of a Christian woman Jyotsna Mary Joseph, who married a Muslim DYFI region secretary Shejin. The father had claimed that his daughter was taken away against her will and was kept in illegal detention while raising 'love jihad' allegations in the matter. Arun and …

Kerala HC declines to interfere with interfaith relationship
2 years, 11 months ago

Kerala HC declines to interfere with interfaith relationship

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to interfere with the decision of a Christian woman to marry a Muslim DYFI leader, a decision which stirred up a political storm in the state after her relatives alleged "love jihad", as she categorically told the court that she has not been illegally detained and she was not interested in speaking …

Allahabad High Court rejects two women's plea to recognise their 'marriage'
2 years, 11 months ago

Allahabad High Court rejects two women's plea to recognise their 'marriage'

Firstpost  

The couple contended that the Hindu Marriage Act talks about the marriage of two people and homosexual marriage has not been opposed by the legislation Allahabad: A plea by two women to recognise their “marriage” on the argument that such union was not “opposed” by the Hindu Marriage Act has been rejected by the Allahabad High Court. Opposing their plea, …

Interfaith marriage sparks political row in Kerala after relatives of bride alleges 'love jihad'
2 years, 11 months ago

Interfaith marriage sparks political row in Kerala after relatives of bride alleges 'love jihad'

Firstpost  

Relatives of Jyotsna Mary Joseph, a nurse in Saudi Arabia, levelled ’love jihad’ allegations after she recently walked out on her family and married Shejin, a local DYFI leader belonging to the Muslim community, without their consent Kozhikode: A recent interfaith marriage of a Muslim activist of the ruling CPI’s youth wing DYFI, has stirred up a political storm after …

Spouse Refusing To Accord Divorce On Mutual Consent Despite Being Convinced That Marriage Failed Amounts To Cruelty : Kerala High Court
3 years, 1 month ago

Spouse Refusing To Accord Divorce On Mutual Consent Despite Being Convinced That Marriage Failed Amounts To Cruelty : Kerala High Court

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court has held that if one of the spouses is refusing to accord divorce on mutual consent despite being convinced of the fact that the marriage has failed, it is nothing but cruelty to the other spouse. A Division Bench of Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Sophy Thomas noted that once the court is able to …

Heartbreak, wasted policing, injustice: ‘Love jihad’ law fuels hate
3 years, 2 months ago

Heartbreak, wasted policing, injustice: ‘Love jihad’ law fuels hate

Hindustan Times  

They met in Bhopal in April 2019. 56 cases have been registered as love jihad against people after elopement, rape, marriage and using fake identity with an intention of conversion,” said Rajesh Rajora, additional chief secretary at the state’s home department. “In most cases of a love affair, the woman hides this from her family so there is a dearth …

Buddhist-Muslim tensions brewing in Ladakh’s Zanskar region over interfaith marriage
3 years, 3 months ago

Buddhist-Muslim tensions brewing in Ladakh’s Zanskar region over interfaith marriage

Deccan Chronicle  

SRINAGAR: Tensions are mounting in Zanskar, a mountainous region of Ladakh with a population of 20,000-vast majority of them Buddhists-over an interfaith marriage. The woman’s family has lodged a missing person’s complaint at the local police station after the girl eloped with a Muslim man and married him. A local imam performed nikah after the Buddhist woman Sonam Angmo converted …

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge
3 years, 3 months ago

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups say violence against interfaith couples has increased in recent years, perpetrated by hardline Hindu groups. ‘Love jihad’ While interfaith unions between Hindus and Muslims are rare in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindu nationalists have decried what they call “love jihad”. First, they came from Kumbhar’s family, then from members of the …

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge
3 years, 4 months ago

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

Associated Press  

BELAGAVI, India — Arbaz Mullah’s love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta Kumbhar. While interfaith unions between Hindus and Muslims are rare in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, and other Hindu nationalists have forcefully decried what they call “love jihad.” The discredited …

Watch: Video of street play based on the theme of Muslim man murdering a Hindu woman after his deceit fails to work goes viral
3 years, 5 months ago

Watch: Video of street play based on the theme of Muslim man murdering a Hindu woman after his deceit fails to work goes viral

Op India  

On October 12, a video of a street play based on the theme of a romantic relationship by deceitful means went viral on social media. सभी गरबा/डांडिया व दुर्गा पूजा पांडालों में ऐसे थीम बनाए जाएं ताकि न सिर्फ सनातन की पवित्रता बची रहे बल्कि हमारी बहन बेटियां भी लव ज़िहाद से बची रहें. Such presentations will help in preventing …

Love and narcotic jihad exists in Kerala, claims Catholic Bishop
3 years, 6 months ago

Love and narcotic jihad exists in Kerala, claims Catholic Bishop

Deccan Chronicle  

Kottayam: A Catholic bishop on Thursday triggered a controversy, saying that Christian girls were largely falling prey to "love and narcotic jihad" in Kerala and wherever arms cannot be used, extremists were using such methods to destroy the youth belonging to other religions. As part of the "love jihad", non-Muslim girls, especially those belonging to the Christian community, were largely …

Anti 'Love Jihad' Law: Gujarat High Court Puts Sections Of 'Freedom Of Religion' Act On Hold
3 years, 7 months ago

Anti 'Love Jihad' Law: Gujarat High Court Puts Sections Of 'Freedom Of Religion' Act On Hold

ABP News  

Anti-Love Jihad Law: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday stayed the implementation of some sections of the state's new anti-conversion law on inter-religious marriages. A bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Biren Vaishnav said an interim order has been passed to protect people from unnecessary trouble. The Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2021 which punishes people involved in …

Landmark Kerala HC verdict restores a right for Muslim women
3 years, 10 months ago

Landmark Kerala HC verdict restores a right for Muslim women

The Hindu  

For decades it was the best kept secret in matters of divorce among Muslims. At the societal level, most women have remained unaware of the right to khula, a single inalienable right to divorce that is available to them, and the case became even more complicated and ignorance spread across generations because the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939, denied …

Gujarat Assembly passes ‘love jihad’ law
3 years, 11 months ago

Gujarat Assembly passes ‘love jihad’ law

The Hindu  

The Gujarat Assembly on Thursday passed the Freedom of Religion Act, 2003 amendment Bill that seeks to penalise forcible or fraudulent religious conversion by marriage or “love jihad”, bringing in stringent provisions against forcible conversion through marriage or allurement. The Bill amends a 2003 Act, and seeks to curb the “emerging trend in which women are lured to marriage for …

Hindus Being Tricked into Marriage by Love Jihad, Says Metro Man E Sreedharan Ahead of Joining BJP
4 years, 1 month ago

Hindus Being Tricked into Marriage by Love Jihad, Says Metro Man E Sreedharan Ahead of Joining BJP

News 18  

E Sreedharan, popularly known as the “Metro Man” of India on Friday said that he was opposed to the notion of ‘love jihad’ because he has seen Hindu girls in Kerala being tricked into marriage. Now that sort of a thing I certainly will oppose,” Sreedharan told NDTV in response to a question on ‘love jihad’. Sreedharan comments come when …

Love jihad laws risk security of inter-faith couples as few states comply with SC's safe house directive
4 years, 1 month ago

Love jihad laws risk security of inter-faith couples as few states comply with SC's safe house directive

Firstpost  

It was only a virtual press conference, but it encapsulated both the venom and the defiant hope that characterise the world of inter-faith couples today. Mallik also warned Asif Iqbal, co-founder of Dhanak of Humanity, a Delhi-based organisation that has helped 1,300 inter-faith and inter-caste couples since 2012, to stop doing this work and helping “ka****”. The organisation has managed …

Love Jihad -CJP Moves Supreme Court Challenging Himachal Pradesh And Madhya Pradesh Anti-Conversion Laws
4 years, 1 month ago

Love Jihad -CJP Moves Supreme Court Challenging Himachal Pradesh And Madhya Pradesh Anti-Conversion Laws

Live Law  

Citizens for Justice and Peace has approached the Supreme Court seeking permission to challenge Love-jihad laws passed by Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in its plea challenging the laws made by Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand against religious conversions for the sake of marriages. The petitioner seeks to make the inclusion after being informed that the Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion …

Countering ‘love jihad’ by celebrating India’s interfaith couples
4 years, 1 month ago

Countering ‘love jihad’ by celebrating India’s interfaith couples

Al Jazeera  

Last week marked the 100th day of a campaign called India Love Project, started by former journalists, that celebrates interfaith love or marriages. “Love jihad” refers to a conspiracy theory propagated for more than 10 years by India’s right-wing groups that accuse Muslim men of luring Hindu women for marriage to forcefully convert them to Islam. A day after the …

Punjab and Haryana HC uphold Sharia law, declares Muslim woman's marriage with lover illegal
4 years, 1 month ago

Punjab and Haryana HC uphold Sharia law, declares Muslim woman's marriage with lover illegal

Op India  

While hearing a petition filed by a Muslim couple from Mewat district in Haryana seeking protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court declared their marriage illegal citing the Muslim personal law. A Muslim man can have multiple wives without divorce, but a woman will need to divorce her husband first: HC The couple was reportedly facing threats from their family …

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