Love Jihad

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said the state government was thinking about introducing a law to curb "love jihad" but will study similar legislations in other states before taking a decision.

After a video of an arms training camp organised by the right-wing group Rashtriya Bajrang Dal in Assam went viral on social media, the police today said that they have initiated a probe into the case.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday urged the police to develop a standard operating Procedure (SOP) for probing cases of 'love-jihad' in the state.

Congress's Assam unit president Bhupen Bora on Friday apologised for drawing a parallel between 'love jihad' and Lord Krishna's relationship with Rukmini while commenting on the triple murder case in Golaghat.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that equating Lord Krishna and Rukmini's relationship to so-called "Love Jihad" by Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Kumar Borah is unfortunate.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the accused, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer identified as Najibur Rahman Bora, was a drug addict and involved in trafficking contraband substances

A 37-year-old Muslim man has been arrested by Navsari police in Gujarat for allegedly raping and blackmailing a girl for nearly five years, an official said on Wednesday.

The Bikaner Police on Wednesday tracked down a 17-year-old girl and her woman teacher in Chennai, days after the two went missing and later posted a video online saying they are in love and wanted to be together, a senior officer said.

BJP leader Pankaja Munde on Sunday said that 'love jihad' (a right-wing conspiracy theory that Muslim men lure Hindu women to convert them) wasn't on the agenda of the central government.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said "love jihad" cases had been detected in "large numbers" during probe into missing person complaints in the state.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday slammed the makers of 'The Kerala Story' film, saying they were taking up the Sangh Parivar propaganda of projecting the state as a centre of religious extremism by raising the issue of 'love jihad'.

Accusing the saffron party of politicising the Biranpur incident, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the daughters of senior BJP leaders marrying Muslims is "love" and on contrary to this, others doing the same is termed as "Jihad".

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said there appeared some kind of design behind the incidents of 'love jihad'.

Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi on Monday demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Welfare Mangal Prabhat Lodha for allegedly providing "false information" to the legislative Assembly over the issue of "love jihad".

A relationship cannot be dubbed as a form of 'love jihad' just because the boy and the girl belong to different religions, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has said while granting pre-arrest bail to a Muslim woman and her family.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said the state government was thinking about introducing a law to curb "love jihad" but will study similar legislations in other states before taking a decision.

After a video of an arms training camp organised by the right-wing group Rashtriya Bajrang Dal in Assam went viral on social media, the police today said that they have initiated a probe into the case.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday urged the police to develop a standard operating Procedure (SOP) for probing cases of 'love-jihad' in the state.

Congress's Assam unit president Bhupen Bora on Friday apologised for drawing a parallel between 'love jihad' and Lord Krishna's relationship with Rukmini while commenting on the triple murder case in Golaghat.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that equating Lord Krishna and Rukmini's relationship to so-called "Love Jihad" by Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Kumar Borah is unfortunate.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the accused, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer identified as Najibur Rahman Bora, was a drug addict and involved in trafficking contraband substances

A 37-year-old Muslim man has been arrested by Navsari police in Gujarat for allegedly raping and blackmailing a girl for nearly five years, an official said on Wednesday.

The Bikaner Police on Wednesday tracked down a 17-year-old girl and her woman teacher in Chennai, days after the two went missing and later posted a video online saying they are in love and wanted to be together, a senior officer said.

BJP leader Pankaja Munde on Sunday said that 'love jihad' (a right-wing conspiracy theory that Muslim men lure Hindu women to convert them) wasn't on the agenda of the central government.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said "love jihad" cases had been detected in "large numbers" during probe into missing person complaints in the state.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday slammed the makers of 'The Kerala Story' film, saying they were taking up the Sangh Parivar propaganda of projecting the state as a centre of religious extremism by raising the issue of 'love jihad'.

Accusing the saffron party of politicising the Biranpur incident, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the daughters of senior BJP leaders marrying Muslims is "love" and on contrary to this, others doing the same is termed as "Jihad".

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said there appeared some kind of design behind the incidents of 'love jihad'.

Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi on Monday demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Welfare Mangal Prabhat Lodha for allegedly providing "false information" to the legislative Assembly over the issue of "love jihad".

A relationship cannot be dubbed as a form of 'love jihad' just because the boy and the girl belong to different religions, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has said while granting pre-arrest bail to a Muslim woman and her family.