Karnataka Orders CID Probe into 'Love Jehad' Cases
Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Oct 26: With `Love Jehad,’ the new weapon of Muslim fundamentalists to lure non-Muslim girls into marriage and conversion to Islam gaining widespread media coverage and even legal scrutiny, the BJP government in Karnataka has ordered a Crime Investigation Department (CID) probe into the menace.
Karnataka home minister Dr V S Acharya, who held a high-level meeting of senior police officials, told reporters after the meeting that the Director General of Police (DGP), CID, has been asked to conduct a thorough investigation into the entire situation and submit a report within the next 15 days.
The meeting, which held a detailed discussion on the alleged incidents of `love jehad’ in Karnataka and Kerala, decided in favour of a CID probe in the background of the a recent order of Karnataka High Court to investigate such incidents.
Dr Acharya said a decision has been taken to collect full details about the funding, support and the existence of ‘love jehad.’
Apart from collecting information about missing girls, the DGP, CID would also gather information on the menace, including details from Kerala and submit a report to the government suggesting measures to be taken to curb it, the minister said.
The probe will also focus on whether girls were being lured for conversion, any organisation was promoting such activities and to find out who is behind it. After receiving the report, the government would decide the course of action to be initiated to check `love jehad’, he said.
It may be recalled that the Karnataka High Court during the hearing on a Habeas Corpus petition filed by the parents of a girl, who married a Muslim boy from Kannur district in Kerala, had alleged that the girl was confined in a madrasa in Kerala’s Mallapuram town, had directed Karnataka and Kerala governments to jointly probe the ‘jehad’ and file a report before November 13.
The Kerala High Court had also recently directed the Kerala government to provide information on ‘love jehad’, sarcastically asking whether the movement was `Love Jehad’ or `Romeo Jehad’ to convert innocent and gullible girls from other religions to Islam.
However, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has decided to file a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court’s order asking a woman who had converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man from Kerala, to return to her parents’ home until the case was investigated.
'It would amount to curtailing individual freedom to marry or practice any religion,’’ the PUCL said..
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