Love Jihad’ is a political stunt. I urge Muslim youths to consider Hindu girls as their sisters if they wish to defend themselves from the torture, said S.T. Hasan, leader of Samajwadi Party.
In the context of Love Jihad, the Uttar Pradesh Government is soon expected to issue an ordinance related to religious conversion. Laws and Acts enacted to oppose conversion in other states are being studied.
Rahat Austin, a human rights activist in Pakistan, said that 171 Hindus were converted in a mass conversion program at Karachi’s Ahsan-ul-Talim Madarsa in Sindh province.
A 14-year-old girl studying in the 9th standard was kidnapped, forcibly converted and married to Abdul Saboor in Mori District of Sindh region.
A religious fanatic was caught by the public, who was pretended to be a Hindu and trapped a Hindu girl in the name of Love. He was handed over to the local Police.
The Union Home Ministry has cancelled foreign exchange licence of 13 Christian missionaries and organisations carrying out religious conversion activities in tribal areas.
The National Investigation Agency has registered a human trafficking case against a few Bangladeshi nationals for kidnapping a city-based woman from the UK to the South Asian country and is investigating the ‘love jihad’ angle.
In the town Pakbada, the son, and daughter-in-law beat the mother who resisted conversion to Christianity. The mother complained to the Police. The Police arrested the son Ajit, daughter-in-law Pushpa, and one more person.
The Kerala Government has issued a circular prohibiting the prevailing practice of uploading of ‘notices of intended marriage’ under the Special Marriage Act on the website of Registration Department.
The ‘Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Branch’ (CTTC) of Bangladesh Police on 17th July arrested a 25-year-old Indian girl from Sadarghat in Dhaka with alleged links to neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).