Forensic team visits television show's set, seizes late actor Tunisha Sharma's belongings for investigation
2 years ago

Forensic team visits television show's set, seizes late actor Tunisha Sharma's belongings for investigation

Firstpost  

The police have recorded the statements of 16 persons, including those who were present on the set on Saturday, he said. A team from a Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai has visited the set of the television show in Maharashtra’s Palghar district where actor Tunisha Sharma was found dead and seized various materials including a crepe bandage which she allegedly used to hang herself, a police official said on Tuesday. The forensic team from the Kalina lab visited the set on Monday and also seized the clothes and jewellery which Sharma wore on Saturday, when she was found dead, he said. The official also said that police have seized Sharma’s co-actor Sheezan Khan’s mobile phone and clothes which he wore on the day of incident, the official said. As the incident triggered intense discussions on social media, Sharma’s mother on Monday alleged Khan had cheated and “used” her daughter for three to four months.

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Love Jihad in MP: Iman kidnaps a minor Hindu girl and converts her to Islam, victim's family files a complaint
5 days, 3 hours ago

Love Jihad in MP: Iman kidnaps a minor Hindu girl and converts her to Islam, victim's family files a complaint

Op India  

A Muslim youth from the Mauganj district has been charged with the kidnapping of a 16-year-old Hindu girl and her forced conversion, according to a report in NDTV Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh. The man has been identified as Iman Ali Ansari and was accused of love jihad by the minor’s family who also criticised the police and administration for their negligence …

Love Jihad in Uttarakhand: Muslim man poses as Suraj to exploit a Dalit Hindu woman, exploits her of wealth and jewellery
1 week ago

Love Jihad in Uttarakhand: Muslim man poses as Suraj to exploit a Dalit Hindu woman, exploits her of wealth and jewellery

Op India  

In Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar, a Muslim man named Jabir Ali befriended a Dalit Hindu woman by introducing himself as Suraj. The victim said, “When I refused, Jabir and his brothers – Abbas Ali, Riyasat, Zakir and Shakir – started threatening to make the video viral and kill me.” Eventually, the victim was forced to marry. The victim said that …

Love Jihad: SC dismisses PIL to expunge Bareilly court observation
1 week, 1 day 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’ …

Fact Check: Not 'Love jihad'! This video of Hindu women rescued from Muslim man's house is SCRIPTED
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Fact Check: Not 'Love jihad'! This video of Hindu women rescued from Muslim man's house is SCRIPTED

India Today  

A video of two people allegedly rescuing multiple Hindu women from a Muslim man's house has been widely shared on social media. India Today Fact Check found that the viral video does not show the rescue of abducted women at all. This featured a disclaimer at the 22-second mark that said the video “should be considered for entertainment purposes only.” …

Telangana BJP MP Appeals Christians' Support Against Love Jihad, Tears Bangladesh Flag During Goa Event
1 month ago

Telangana BJP MP Appeals Christians' Support Against Love Jihad, Tears Bangladesh Flag During Goa Event

ABP News  

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh gave controversial remarks on Sunday appealing to Christians to join hands with Hindus for the united fight against "love jihad" which is affecting both religions. Addressing a Bajrand Dal rally at Curchorem in south Goa, the BJP legislator said India won't have a Hindu prime minister in the next 20 to 30 years if …

Indore: Muslim man arrested with 4 ID cards including in Hindu name
1 month ago

Indore: Muslim man arrested with 4 ID cards including in Hindu name

Op India  

A major love jihad conspiracy has been exposed in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. The matter pertains to the Tejaji Nagar police station area where a Hindu outfit alerted the authorities to a love jihad incident occurring there. According to police station in-charge Devendra Markam, Hindu Jagran Manch lodged a complaint charging that a Muslim youth had entered Royal Villa Farm House …

Love Jihad in Lucknow: Amir hides identity to trap a minor into a 'love affair', abducts and rapes her
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad in Lucknow: Amir hides identity to trap a minor into a 'love affair', abducts and rapes her

Op India  

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday, 26th November arrested an individual identified as Amir for deliberately trapping a 13-year-old minor girl from Lucknow into a ‘love affair’, abducting and raping her. By this time, the police began an investigation based on the complaint filed by the family of the girl and traced the location of the accused in Surat. Also, …

Love Jihad: 4 Cases of Rape, Threats and Assault in India
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad: 4 Cases of Rape, Threats and Assault in India

Op India  

A disturbing pattern of love jihad cases has emerged in India, with multiple incidents reported across different states. These cases highlight the dangers faced by non-Muslim girls and women, particularly from the Hindu community, who are targeted and exploited by Muslim men. The perpetrators employ various deceptive tactics, including social media manipulation, false identities, and threats, to gain the victims' …

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Accused Traps Hindu Woman, Forcing Her to Convert to Islam
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Accused Traps Hindu Woman, Forcing Her to Convert to Islam

Op India  

A Hindu woman in Saharanpur has been subjected to sexual assault and forced to convert to Islam by an individual posing as a Hindu named Mohammad Ashif. The woman, who was deceived by the accused into a relationship, was trapped into a situation where she was forced to convert to Islam against her will.

Love Jihad in Uttarakhand: Shoaib Khan uses Hindu identity to trap woman, forces her to convert to Islam, arrested after police complaint
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Love Jihad in Uttarakhand: Shoaib Khan uses Hindu identity to trap woman, forces her to convert to Islam, arrested after police complaint

Op India  

A 24-year-old man named Shoaib Khan has been arrested in Uttarakhand for allegedly entrapping and sexually abusing a Hindu woman. The woman met Khan at the gym and began talking to him on social media. He forced her to convert to Islam and threatened to kill her if she refused. The police received a complaint from the woman's husband and …

‘Love Jihad’ being waged by certain community, poses major threat to nation’s unity: U.P. court judge
3 months, 1 week 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 …

Bareilly court judge explains ‘love jihad’ in order, sentences man to ‘entire life’ in jail
3 months, 1 week ago

Bareilly court judge explains ‘love jihad’ in order, sentences man to ‘entire life’ in jail

Hindustan Times  

In a fast track court in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, a judge gave a 42-page order detailing what the term ‘love jihad’ means after sentencing a Muslim man to his ‘entire life’ in jail, despite the woman rescinding her testimony, reported The Times of India. A muslim man was sentenced to jail for 'love jihad' even after the woman revised her …

Love Jihad in Ghaziabad: Muslim man poses as Hindu to marry a Hindu woman; arrested
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Jihad in Ghaziabad: Muslim man poses as Hindu to marry a Hindu woman; arrested

Op India  

A new case of Love Jihad has come to the fore from the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Police on Sunday, September 15 arrested one individual identified as Danish, a resident of Dhaulana for marrying a Hindu girl by posing as a Hindu. The Police are believed to have taken action after the girl filed a police complaint saying that …

Love Jihad in UP: Hindu woman lured by Salman under false pretences, raped by father-in-law and brother-in-law
6 months, 1 week ago

Love Jihad in UP: Hindu woman lured by Salman under false pretences, raped by father-in-law and brother-in-law

Op India  

A horrific incident of love jihad has come to light in the Mohanlalganj area of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh where a Muslim man named Salman Rain faked his identity to marry a 28-year-old Hindu woman and then converted her forcibly to Islam. The culprit then called her to court in 2011 to marry him where she learned about the truth …

Love Jihad in Assam: Muslim man arrested after luring a Hindu girl under false pretences
6 months, 1 week ago

Love Jihad in Assam: Muslim man arrested after luring a Hindu girl under false pretences

Op India  

A 20-year-old male from the Baksa district of Assam was taken into custody on accusations of hiding his religious affiliation to trap a Hindu girl. The offender pretended to be a Hindu guy named Rana Saha on social media platforms to communicate with the victim, according to police reports. In 2019, a 14-year-old girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in …

Love Jihad in MP: Arshad pretends to be Bhaiyyu, rapes, assaults Hindu girl
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad in MP: Arshad pretends to be Bhaiyyu, rapes, assaults Hindu girl

Op India  

A shocking occurrence of love jihad and rape of a 20-year-old girl for one and a half years has come to light in the Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. On 22nd June she reached the police station along with the workers of Hindu Jagran Manch and registered a case against him under various sections including rape and assault. He used …

Love Jihad: Shahrukh becomes Rohit to lure a girl, forces her to convert
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad: Shahrukh becomes Rohit to lure a girl, forces her to convert

Op India  

A case of love jihad has surfaced from Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district. A Muslim youth in the Sadalpur area befriended a Hindu girl by hiding his identity and as their relationship progressed he pressured her to embrace Islam for marriage. Afterwards, she lodged a complaint at the police station based on which a First Information Report was filed and the …

Love Jihad in MP: Wasim Khan poses as Sonu to trap a Hindu girl; rapes and blackmails her to convert
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Jihad in MP: Wasim Khan poses as Sonu to trap a Hindu girl; rapes and blackmails her to convert

Op India  

A shocking case of Love Jihad has come to light from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. A bus driver named Wasim Khan introduced himself as Sonu to develop a friendship with a Hindu girl who works at a Pharmaceutical company. One day, the victim found an Aadhaar card inside the bag of the accused, which revealed that the man who introduced himself …

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

A case of selective outrage
7 months, 4 weeks ago

A case of selective outrage

The Hindu  

On May 9, a 16-year-old girl in Kumbaragadige village in Somwarpet taluk in the hilly district of Kodagu in Karnataka got her Class 10 results. This incident occurred a few weeks after Neha Hiremath, a first year Masters student of Computer Applications and the daughter of a Congress municipal councillor, was killed by her former classmate Fayaz Khondunaik in in …

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Shaqib poses as Sagar to befriend a Hindu girl, assaults and attempts to rape her after being exposed
8 months ago

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Shaqib poses as Sagar to befriend a Hindu girl, assaults and attempts to rape her after being exposed

Op India  

A new case of Love Jihad has surfaced from the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, where a Hindu girl was trapped in a ‘love affair’ by accused Mohammed Shaqib, who posed as a Hindu individual. As per the videos that are making rounds on social media, the accused then assaulted the girl along with four of his associates and also …

BJP blames 'love jihad' for Neha Hiremath's murder in Hubballi
8 months, 3 weeks ago

BJP blames 'love jihad' for Neha Hiremath's murder in Hubballi

Hindustan Times  

The murder of the daughter of a Congress councillor in Hubballi on her college campus for allegedly rejecting a man's marriage proposal, has triggered a political row in poll-bound Karnataka. While the ruling Congress claimed “a personal angle”, the Opposition BJP suspects that the motivation behind the murder was "love jihad". Neha Hiremath, a first-year MCA student in BVB College, …

Love Jihad: Muslim man pretends to be Hindu, later says won't marry a Hindu, hurls caste abuse
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Love Jihad: Muslim man pretends to be Hindu, later says won't marry a Hindu, hurls caste abuse

Op India  

Another Love Jihad case has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district. In this case, the accused Talib Hasan pretended to be a Hindu man named Ankit and trapped a Dalit girl who was a widow. When the victim learned about his real identity, she lodged an FIR against the accused Talib Hasan, and his family members on 9th …

These news channels have been warned over ‘love jihad’ shows
10 months, 1 week ago

These news channels have been warned over ‘love jihad’ shows

Live Mint  

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has taken action against several news channels for their shows. TimesNow Navbharat and News18 India faced fines for their segments on "love jihad". The term "love jihad" must be used with "great introspection as religious stereotyping amounts to violation of the Code of Ethics and can corrode the secular fabric of the country", …

Bihar: Anees traps minor Hindu girl into love jihad; drugs and rapes the victim, Police deny
11 months ago

Bihar: Anees traps minor Hindu girl into love jihad; drugs and rapes the victim, Police deny

Op India  

A horrifying case of love jihad has come to light in Bihar’s Sitamarhi where Mohammad Anees Ansari pretended to be a Hindu and lured a 14-year-old girl into a love trap through social media. A case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act Act has been registered against him on the instructions of the Sitamarhi Superintendent of Police …

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’
11 months, 4 weeks ago

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’

The Hindu  

January 12, 2024 09:01 am | Updated January 18, 2024 01:06 pm IST Three journalists, Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma, put their heads together to address widely floated conspiracy theories such as love jihad, forced conversions and population jihad in their new book, Love Jihad and Other Fictions. There was a certain frustration in the way it was …

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’
11 months, 4 weeks ago

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’

The Hindu  

Three journalists, Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma, put their heads together to address widely floated conspiracy theories such as love jihad, forced conversions and population jihad in their new book, Love Jihad and Other Fictions. There was a certain frustration in the way it was getting approached, a kind of ‘he said, she said approach,’ specially true for …

Video of Muslim youth beaten at Bandra surfaces; ‘In name of love jihad’: AIMIM
1 year, 4 months ago

Video of Muslim youth beaten at Bandra surfaces; ‘In name of love jihad’: AIMIM

Hindustan Times  

A purported video of a Muslim youth being up at Mumbai's Bandra railway station for 'going out with a minor Hindu girl' surfaced on social media with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen demanding a probe into the 'assault in the name of love jihad'. AIMIM national spokesperson Waris Pathan shared the video and said, "What is happening at the heart …

Want peaceful co-existence between Hindus & Muslims, but love jihad…: Himanta
1 year, 5 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 …

Fact Check: No 'Love Jihad'! Grisly video of Gurugram murder shared with FALSE communal spin
1 year, 6 months ago

Fact Check: No 'Love Jihad'! Grisly video of Gurugram murder shared with FALSE communal spin

India Today  

A disturbing video of a woman’s corpse lying on a blood-stained road has been widely shared on social media as an instance of “Love Jihad”, a far-right Hindu conspiracy theory that claims Muslim men target Hindu women and convert them to Islam through marriage. According to a report by The Indian Express, the video showed a 19-year-old woman was stabbed …

Their homes were marked with black X signs. Now Muslims in India are leaving Himalayan towns in fear for their lives
1 year, 6 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 …

Some Muslim Families Are Fleeing Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi. What Led To This?
1 year, 6 months ago

Some Muslim Families Are Fleeing Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi. What Led To This?

The Quint  

On 26 May, two men, Jitendra Saini and Ubaid Khan, were caught with a minor girl in Uttarkashi’s Purola town, allegedly trying to kidnap her. The girl was sent back home and the two men were arrested by the police and charged under IPC sections 363 366A as well as under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Even …

Background checks will curb ‘love jihad’, says Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami
1 year, 7 months ago

Background checks will curb ‘love jihad’, says Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami

The Hindu  

With tension brewing in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi town after a minor girl attempted to elope with a boy from the minority community, the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday said that to check the rising cases of “love jihad”, the government will launch background checks for people who recently moved to Uttarakhand. ‘Devbhoomi Raksha Abhiyan’, a right-wing group, has allegedly …

OPINION | HOW TO PREVENT ‘LOVE JIHAD’
1 year, 7 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 …

Just because boy and girl are from different religions, it's not 'Love Jihad': Bombay HC
1 year, 10 months 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 …

Love Jihad: Karnataka BJP leader\'s statement kicks up controversy
2 years ago

Love Jihad: Karnataka BJP leader\'s statement kicks up controversy

Deccan Chronicle  

Mangaluru: The recent statement about Love Jihad by BJP Karnataka state president Nalin Kumar Kateel has raked up fresh controversy in the state. The viral video shows Nalin asking the party workers not to take up small issues like roads, gutters, and drains but bring BJP to power to fight against Love Jihad. Nalin also spoke about the strict measures …

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

As 2022 comes to a close here is a list of 153 cases of Love Jihad that OpIndia reported in 2022
2 years ago

As 2022 comes to a close here is a list of 153 cases of Love Jihad that OpIndia reported in 2022

Op India  

Much has been spoken and written about the menace of Love Jihad that has rapidly been spreading its tentacles across many parts of the country, where vulnerable Hindu women are being targeted by Muslim men, enticed and misled, forcibly converted to Islam, tortured, raped, and then either killed or abandoned. Madhya Pradesh Love Jihad On June 22, OpIndia reported another …

Maharashtra is planning law to curb ‘love jihad’: Minister
2 years ago

Maharashtra is planning law to curb ‘love jihad’: Minister

The Hindu  

Maharashtra Minister and BJP leader Girish Mahajan has alleged that the death of television actress Tunisha Sharma is a matter of ‘love jihad’ and the State is planning to bring a strict law to curb such incidents. To study laws ‘Love jihad’ is a term often used by right-wing activists to allege a ploy by Muslim men to lure Hindu …

Tunisha Sharma death: Forensic team visits TV show set, seize actor's clothes, other belongings
2 years ago

Tunisha Sharma death: Forensic team visits TV show set, seize actor's clothes, other belongings

India TV News  

A team from a Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai has visited the set of the television show in Maharashtra's Palghar district where actor Tunisha Sharma was found dead and seized various materials including a crepe bandage which she allegedly used to hang herself, a police official said on Tuesday. The forensic team from the Kalina lab visited the set on …

Tunisha Sharma's death is a 'love jihad' case, claims her uncle
2 years ago

Tunisha Sharma's death is a 'love jihad' case, claims her uncle

India Today  

Days after the death of actor Tunisha Sharma, her uncle has urged police to investigate the “love jihad” angle in the case. Speaking to India Today, Pawan Sharma, uncle of Tunisha Sharma said, “I think this is 100 per cent a case of love jihad. He also claimed that the police have not taken the statements of family members in …

Evening brief: BJP's Ram Kadam assures probe if any 'love jihad' angle found in Tunisha's case, and all the latest news
2 years ago

Evening brief: BJP's Ram Kadam assures probe if any 'love jihad' angle found in Tunisha's case, and all the latest news

Hindustan Times  

Here are today’s top news, analysis, and opinion. : BJP MLA Ram Kadam assures 100% justice BJP MLA Ram Kadam on Sunday said if there is any love-jihad angle in television actor Tunisha Sharma's suicide case, then the police will probe that and take action against the organisation behind it. ': Sanjay Raut on Kharge's 'dog' remark Shiv Sena leader …

Love-jihad vs simple crime: What Himanta Biswa Sarma said
2 years ago

Love-jihad vs simple crime: What Himanta Biswa Sarma said

India Today  

The debate on whether a crime is just a simple crime or is love-jihad will go on, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, as he defended his remarks on the murder of Shraddha Walkar. This debate will go on,” Sarma said at the India Today North East Townhall. But when a Muslim man kills a Hindu girl, we will …

Pro-Hindu groups demand separate law against Love Jihad in Karnataka
2 years, 1 month 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 …

MCD polls: Assam CM raises Mehrauli killing issue, demands law against 'Love Jihad'
2 years, 1 month ago

MCD polls: Assam CM raises Mehrauli killing issue, demands law against 'Love Jihad'

India Today  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday demanded a stringent law against "Love Jihad" as he raised the issue of the gruesome Mehrauli killing while campaigning for the municipal polls in northeast Delhi which was struck by communal riots in 2020. "Love Jihad" is a term often used by the BJP and Hindu right-wing leaders to refer to illegal …

How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh
2 years, 5 months ago

How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh

Al Jazeera  

The story of a woman who was an alleged ‘complainant’ against her Muslim partner that led to his imprisonment for months. “It was a case of love; they turned it into something called ‘love jihad’,” Kaur told Al Jazeera as she locked the doors of the small house she shared with her parents. by Amandeep Kaur, 24 When asked about …

Love Jihad in Bareilly: Hindu woman raped, fed beef, forced to convert to Islam
2 years, 5 months ago

Love Jihad in Bareilly: Hindu woman raped, fed beef, forced to convert to Islam

Op India  

In yet another case of love jihad, a youth named Imran has been accused of hiding his religious identity to trap a Hindu woman, thereafter pressurising her to convert to Islam and forcefully marrying her. Fed up with the continued harassment, the woman approached the Izzatnagar police station and filed a complaint against Imran and his family, accusing them of …

Kerala HC declines 'love jihad' plea after Christian woman marries Muslim man
2 years, 8 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 …

Kerala HC declines to interfere with interfaith relationship
2 years, 8 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 …

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