Love Jihad
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Make Aadhaar mandatory for garba and dandiya events to prevent ‘love jihad’, says VHP
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad demanded that participants be sprinkled with cow urine to separate Hindus and non-Hindus.
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Frame rules to investigate ‘love jihad’ cases, Himanta Biswa Sarma tells Assam Police
The chief minister claimed that the Hindutva idea, which critics have debunked, was the major reason behind forceful religious conversions.
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SC gives three more weeks to states to respond to pleas challenging anti-conversion laws
Bharatiya Janata Party governments in nine states have introduced such laws with an aim to stop inter-faith marriages.
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Trap 10 Muslim girls if one Hindu is lost to ‘love jihad’, Sri Ram Sene chief tells men
Pramod Muthalik also promised job and security to the Hindu men if they decide to trap the women.
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Madhya Pradesh: Hindutva mob assaults Muslim men at woman’s party alleging ‘love jihad’
The police said the Muslim men were sent to jail ‘in order to maintain peace’.
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Haryana notifies rules under anti-conversion law, district magistrates to seek public objections
The state Assembly had passed the Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill in March.
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Maharashtra forms panel to track inter-faith marriages
The government removed inter-caste couples from committee’s purview, saying it encourages such marriages.
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Woman accuses two men of hiring her to frame a Muslim businessman for rape in UP’s Kasganj
One of the men claimed to be a BJP leader. But the district party chief alleged that the accused man has been expelled.
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Bajrang Dal members stop Kannada play alleging it had a ‘love jihad angle’
A member of the theatre group that staged the play said the Hindutva supremacists were opposed to it as it featured Muslim characters.
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Plea alleging forced conversion cannot be based on information from social media, says Delhi HC
The court held that it is an individual’s constitutional right to choose their own religion and to convert if they wish to.
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Karnataka Cabinet will introduce ordinance banning forced religious conversions
The government will take up the anti-conversion Bill in the next Assembly session, the state home minister said.
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No bar on interfaith marriage if there is mutual consent, says minorities panel chief
National Commission for Minorities Chairperson Iqbal Singh Lalpura also said that the body will not interfere with the demolition drives in Delhi.
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