We would like UP-style anti-‘love jihad’ police squad — Karnataka Proper-wing ladies’s group asks Bommai

Bengaluru: The ladies’s entrance of a fringe Proper-wing group has demanded that the Basavaraj Bommai-led Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) authorities arrange an Uttar Pradesh-like devoted police squad to comprise the “rising cases” of “love jihad” in poll-bound Karnataka.

Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) ladies’s wing Durga Sena needs the difficulty to be mentioned within the winter session of the Karnataka meeting that begins 19 December in Belagavi. Karnataka is prone to vote April-Could subsequent 12 months.

“We would like them to create a particular police squad, shield Hindu women from individuals who introduce younger women to Muslim boys, befriend them and convert them,” stated Sena’s Bhavya Gowda.

“Love Jihad” is the phrase utilized by the Proper-wing to explain interfaith relationships with the alleged goal to transform Hindu ladies.

Although the southern state has its personal ‘anti-conversion law’ (The Karnataka Proper to Safety of Proper to Freedom of Faith Act, 2022), Proper-wing teams stay adamant to get a separate invoice to take care of circumstances of “love jihad”. There have been additionally demands that the necessity for Halal certification be achieved away with within the southern state.

Different BJP-ruled states like Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, have both launched comparable legal guidelines aimed toward “defending” younger Hindu ladies or are discussing it.

The Durga Sena alleged there have been “hundreds of circumstances” of “love jihad” whilst there’s little proof to again its claims.

“Each the HJS and Durga Sena have given memorandums asking for a UP-like squad to verify love jihad. I’ll talk about with the chief minister about claims that over 2,500 such circumstances have been reported… if want be, will deliver it up within the (winter) session as nicely,” BJP nationwide common secretary C.T. Ravi stated.

Below the Karnataka anti-conversion legislation, there are heavy penalties and jail phrases for anybody changing by “power, allurement or fraud”. The legislation says nobody must be transformed by one other “by use or apply of misrepresentation, power, undue affect, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by any of those means or by promise of marriage, nor shall any individual abet or conspire such conversion”.

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