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MUMBAI: In a disturbing growth, the Maharashtra authorities has arrange a committee to assemble data on inter-faith and inter-caste marriage {couples} and the maternal households of the ladies concerned if they’re estranged. The panel may have 13 members from authorities and non-government fields to review insurance policies concerning associated welfare schemes and legal guidelines.
The opposition Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has condemned the “retrograde” step, stating that the Eknath Shinde authorities had no proper to spy on the non-public lives of individuals. Senior NCP chief and former state minister Jitendra Awhad tweeted, “What’s this rubbish of committee to check inter-caste/religion marriages? Who is govt to spy on who marries whom? In liberal Maharashtra this a retrograde, nauseating step. Which way is progressive Maharashtra heading towards. Stay away from people’s private life.”
A Government Resolution (GR) issued on Tuesday by the state’s Women and Child Development Department stated the “Intercaste/Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee (state level)” can be headed by Lodha.
They will maintain common conferences with district officers and acquire data on registered and unregistered inter-faith and inter-caste marriages together with elopement, it stated.
The committee will monitor district-level initiatives for ladies concerned in such marriages who could also be estranged from their households, in order that help might be supplied if obligatory, it stated. Women and their households can even use the platform to avail of counselling and resolve points.
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State minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha who’s heading the committee head claimed it was “an attempt to ensure that the Shraddha Walkar case does not happen again.”
“The proven fact that Walkar’s household was not conscious that she had died six months in the past is frightening… the committee is being arrange to make sure ladies in such marriages should not away from their households,” he stated.
Walkar was murdered allegedly by her associate Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi in May this yr who had strangled and reduce her physique into 35 items which he saved in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli, earlier than dumping them throughout the town over a number of days.
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had just lately stated that his authorities would research legal guidelines on freedom of faith enacted by different states, however had not but selected introducing an analogous regulation within the western state.
“Love jihad”, utilized by right-wing activists, alleges a ‘ploy’ by Muslim males to lure Hindu ladies into conversion by marriage.
(With PTI inputs)
MUMBAI: In a disturbing growth, the Maharashtra authorities has arrange a committee to assemble data on inter-faith and inter-caste marriage {couples} and the maternal households of the ladies concerned if they’re estranged. The panel may have 13 members from authorities and non-government fields to review insurance policies concerning associated welfare schemes and legal guidelines.
The opposition Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has condemned the “retrograde” step, stating that the Eknath Shinde authorities had no proper to spy on the non-public lives of individuals. Senior NCP chief and former state minister Jitendra Awhad tweeted, “What’s this rubbish of committee to check inter-caste/religion marriages? Who is govt to spy on who marries whom? In liberal Maharashtra this a retrograde, nauseating step. Which way is progressive Maharashtra heading towards. Stay away from people’s private life.”
A Government Resolution (GR) issued on Tuesday by the state’s Women and Child Development Department stated the “Intercaste/Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee (state level)” can be headed by Lodha.
They will maintain common conferences with district officers and acquire data on registered and unregistered inter-faith and inter-caste marriages together with elopement, it stated.
The committee will monitor district-level initiatives for ladies concerned in such marriages who could also be estranged from their households, in order that help might be supplied if obligatory, it stated. Women and their households can even use the platform to avail of counselling and resolve points.
ALSO READ | Anti-conversion regulation: MP govt to maneuver SC in opposition to interim aid from motion given to interfaith {couples}
State minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha who’s heading the committee head claimed it was “an attempt to ensure that the Shraddha Walkar case does not happen again.”
“The proven fact that Walkar’s household was not conscious that she had died six months in the past is frightening… the committee is being arrange to make sure ladies in such marriages should not away from their households,” he stated.
Walkar was murdered allegedly by her associate Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi in May this yr who had strangled and reduce her physique into 35 items which he saved in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli, earlier than dumping them throughout the town over a number of days.
READ HERE | Anti-conversion legal guidelines, tedious Special Marriage Act harm interfaith unions
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had just lately stated that his authorities would research legal guidelines on freedom of faith enacted by different states, however had not but selected introducing an analogous regulation within the western state.
“Love jihad”, utilized by right-wing activists, alleges a ‘ploy’ by Muslim males to lure Hindu ladies into conversion by marriage.
(With PTI inputs)
