35 minutes agoAuthor: Rajesh Sahu
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Love Jihad… The more popular this word is, the more controversial it is. It is not mentioned in official documents, but it is talked about a lot in politics. Within the last 1 month, 4 such cases came to light in UP, where the matter of love by hiding religion came to light. Pregnant girl died in Shahjahanpur. 4 arrested for trapping girls in an organized manner in Lucknow. Changed the name to Prem in Agra. Got religion converted by blackmailing with pornographic videos. Married and now divorced thrice.
Today we will know these stories related to religious conversion from every angle. Will understand the conspiracies behind loving by hiding the name. Government registers will be searched to know the cases registered so far and the action taken on them. Beginning 3 with matters that have already passed a few days ago.
Case-1: Name changed to Prem then gangraped with friends
A 16-year-old girl of Banda’s Naraini police station area was made friends with a boy by a woman from the locality. The boy’s name was Guddu, but he told Mahesh. The friendship lasted for three months. The victim says, “On May 14, Guddu sniffed something. I fainted. When I regained consciousness, I was in Kaboli village. Guddu took me to Banda. From there to Surat by train.
There two more of his friends gang-raped me. When I wanted to tell the police, he beat me up. I came to know there that he is not a Hindu but a Muslim. He also created pressure for religious conversion.
The victim said, “On May 30, the three locked me in a room and left. I called out to a passerby from the living room window. I remembered maternal uncle’s number, so called him and told him the whole thing. Uncle came there and took me to Banda. ASP Lakshmi Niwas Mishra registered a case of conversion. Told to send a team to Gujarat to investigate.
Case-2: Loved… Became pregnant and died
Naved of Uchaulia of Lakhimpur used to work in a private company in Shahjahanpur for one and a half years. A year ago in Lakhimpur he met a girl from Palia. She used to work in the hospital. After 8 months the girl was transferred to Shahjahanpur. Here both of them started an affair and started living together. The girl did not tell anything about it to the family members.
She became pregnant 1 month ago. This upset her. Wanted to have an abortion by any means. Naved didn’t want that. On May 28, the girl consumed abortion pills. Entire uterus damaged. Naved took him to the Government Medical College. There the doctors declared him dead on sight. When Naved started taking the dead body, the name of the dead girl was asked. He told Zoya Siddiqui.
When the police got suspicious, they investigated. It is learned that the girl is a Hindu. The police immediately took Naved and his friend into custody. Naved was booked on charges of rape and religious conversion on the complaint of the girl’s brother.
The girl’s brother says, “Two days back my sister got a call, she said that some boy named Naved is troubling her. I took Naved’s number and called. We were about to go to my sister’s That before that he killed my sister.” At present, the police is investigating the murder and suicide in this case.
Case-3: Conspiracy to target and sell Hindu girls
On May 20, the police received information that some people were preparing to kidnap and sell a girl. Police became active soon after the information. 125 policemen were deployed. The girl was recovered from the Awadh-Assam train within four and a half hours. Four accused were arrested as Jabir, Amir, Nadir and Wahab. The accused named Zeeshan is absconding.
What has been revealed in this case is surprising. Jabir and Aamir are father and son and lived in Thakurganj. While Nadir and Wahab are from Unnao, they are also involved in selling girls.
These are the four accused arrested. Police sent everyone to jail after questioning.
During interrogation, it was revealed that Aamir used to talk to girls posing as a Hindu, make relations with them and then take them to Mumbai and sell them. The deal to sell was pre-decided. The girl who has been recovered by the police. Aamir had befriended him by hiding his religion. Build relationships too. He was pressurizing her to convert, but the girl did not agree.
There was a preparation to take the girl on Thursday night. At 11 pm, the girl informed the control room about her kidnapping. Said that he could be killed. After this news, police of 6 police stations were deployed. Based on the location of the victim, the police went from Dubagga to Kakori.
After this, the team of Malihabad, Thakurganj, Mal and Rahimabad police station surrounded the forest. The miscreant reached Aishbagh railway station via Dubagga with the girl. The Avadh-Assam Express was standing at the station. The accused climbed up with the girl. Only then the police of Wazirganj police station contacted the GRP and got the vehicle stopped. The train was searched for 45 minutes and at 4 am the police rescued the girl from their clutches.
Case-4: Trapped as a Hindu, got married and gave 3 divorces
In 2017, a missed call was received on the mobile of a girl from Rakabganj, Agra. When the girl called back, the person in front told his name as Raja. The girl hung up the phone not recognizing him. After this, that person’s phone started coming from different numbers. The two became friends after a few days. The boy had called himself a Hindu. Friendship turned into love. Raja made obscene videos of the girl. They talked about marriage by showing these videos. Got my religion converted and got married.
The victim says, “When I came to know that Raja was a Muslim, I refused to marry. At that time Raja and his father threatened me. Said that we have your pornographic videos, we will have to marry. I got married under compulsion. After marriage, the king stopped me from going to his house. If I used to talk to my family members, I used to beat him. He used to say that your family members are infidels, now you will not deal with any relative.
The victim says, Raja has ruined her life by marrying many other girls besides her. He is on a mission of love jihad. When I protested, he beat me badly and threw me out of the house along with the child by pronouncing triple talaq. Now I want action to be taken otherwise it will ruin the lives of many.
- These four incidents happened within a month. The matter of change of religion came to the fore in all the four. Everyone had the same pattern, first hid the name. Loved Forced to change religion, started living together or got married. Now know beyond these stories.
There is no mention of love jihad in the conversion law
On 23 November 2020, this Illegal Conversion Prohibition Ordinance 2020 was placed in the House. Then it was said from the side of the government – We have come up with a law to check conversions with some stringent penal provisions against people and organizations. “If found involved in conversion, uses coercion, deception. Induces marriage or adopts any unfair means.” On 27 November, Governor Anandiben Patel approved this ordinance. After this it became law.
what is love jihad
Love Jihad is made up of two words. Love means love. It doesn’t need a definition. It is a deep and happy feeling. Whereas the word Jihad was born with Islam. It is an Arabic word. According to the experts of Islam, putting all one’s power to fulfill a purpose and achieving it is called Jihad. Although this word is not mentioned anywhere in the official register. There is no mention of love jihad anywhere in the law made by the UP government.
According to the ordinance, if a young man belonging to one religion converts a girl of another religion only for marriage, then it is wrong and the marriage will be invalid. However, no religion was mentioned here. If a person wants to change religion, then he has to take permission from the District Magistrate of his district 60 days in advance. If a religious leader converts without permission, then he can be jailed for 3 years.
433 cases registered in two and a half years
According to the data received from 27 November 2020 to 30 April 2023, 433 cases related to conversion were registered. A total of 855 accused were arrested by the police. Maximum 86 cases were registered in Bareilly. 61 cases were registered in Gorakhpur and 55 in Lucknow. On the other hand, if we talk about arrests, maximum arrests took place in Prayagraj zone. A total of 163 people were arrested here, out of total cases, 46 were registered here.
Police encounter in Lucknow
In Dubagga area of Lucknow, 17-year-old Nidhi Gupta used to be harassed by her neighbor Sufiyan. When the girl told her family, her maternal uncle Ravi Gupta reached Sufiyan’s house with a complaint. The talk escalated. Sufiyaan reaches the fourth floor of the building to kill Ravi. Nidhi arrives to save. It is alleged that Sufiyan pushed Nidhi away from there. Nidhi passed away. Sufiyan ran away. Police declared 25 thousand reward.
After three days, when the police surrounded Sufiyan in Dubagga itself, he opened fire on the police. The police also fired and caught Sufiyan. He was shot in his right leg.
Conversion angle in death of 19 girls in 5 years
We took out the data of the last 5 years. It was learned that there are 17 cases in which 19 girls died. In all these cases, the girls were found to be Hindu and the accused Muslim. The first case in the list is of July 5, 2017 when Heena Talreja was shot dead by her own husband Adnan Khan. Before the murder, Adnan got Hina gang-raped by his friends.
Shot on the forehead. To save Heena, he put a knife in the wound and twisted it. Later, after throwing the dead body on the highway of Kokhraj police station area of Kaushambi district, they ran away. The police arrested everyone and disclosed the matter.
Is there any organized organization behind the conversion for marriage?
The biggest and most effective action of the UP police regarding the conversion of Hindu girls took place in Kanpur. In the beginning of 2021, 14 cases were registered there within two months. Many Hindu organizations including BJP, Bajrang Dal created ruckus talking about Love Jihad. Police constituted SIT. When the SIT started the investigation, no evidence was found of any organization behind it.
Out of 14 cases, there were 8 such in which the girls got married knowing that the person in front was a Muslim. There were 6 cases in which the boys had misled the girls and married them. Two cases were related to Naubasta police station.
Now the question is whether Muslims are being targeted
To answer this question, we have to extract the data for the month after the law came into force. In that one month, 14 cases were registered. 51 people were arrested. Not a single Hindu youth was included in these. During the same period, cases of Muslim girls marrying Hindu boys came to light in Bareilly, Meerut and Kanpur. No case was registered there but they were given security.
When this law was made, 104 retired IAS officers wrote a letter to CM Yogi. These officers opposed the law. Those who wrote the letter include former National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, former advisor to PM TKA Nair, AS Daulat, Sujatha Rai. These officials believed that this law was being used as a stick. This is one in a series of heinous atrocities committed against the Indian youth.
- A few days after the protest letter, 224 retired officers wrote a letter in support of this law. In the letter, 104 former IAS officers opposing the conversion law were described as politically motivated.
Everyone has the right to be with the person of their choice
The strange thing is that just a day before Governor Anandiben Patel implemented the conversion law in UP, a bench of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Aggarwal of the Allahabad High Court gave its verdict in the case of Salamat Ansari and Priyanka Kharwar alias Alia of Kushinagar.
Court said – Everyone has the right to live with the person of his choice. Whether he is a follower of any religion. It is a matter of his personal freedom. If two people are living happily with each other, then no one has the right to object to it.
In the end, you can see in this graphic what is the law in other states regarding forced conversions.
