MP minister faces slogans in Chhatarpur over ‘love jihad’

Minister Om Prakash Saklecha confronted slogans of ‘murdabad’ by staff of the VHP, Bajrang Dal and different teams in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district on Friday afternoon after they have been made to attend over an hour exterior the circuit home, the place that they had assembled to demand police motion in an alleged case of ‘love jihad’.
Some volunteers had gone to fulfill SP Sachin Sharma to submit a memorandum demanding police motion within the matter of 1 Neelam Ahirwar — a suspected sufferer of ‘love jihad’ — being allegedly murdered by her husband Tabbu Khan. The police, nonetheless, say the person is a Hindu.
The protesters reached the circuit home after studying that the SP was there. Saklecha, who was not too long ago introduced as minister-in-charge of Chhtarpur, was visiting the district on the time.

Neelam’s father Kishori Lal Ahirwar instructed The Indian Express that Neelam eloped with a person recognized as Tabbu, also called Talib Khan, in 2015. She reportedly known as Ahirwar on July 1 and mentioned that Tabbu and his household have been making an attempt to kill her and had forcibly transformed her. “I went to meet Talib Khan’s family but they did not allow me to see my daughter. The next day they all went missing,” mentioned Ahirwar.
Ahirwar alleged that Talib’s neighbours mentioned the household left with a girl lined in a sheet. “I think they have killed my daughter but the police are not doing anything about it,” alleged Ahirwar.
According to the police, the person recognized as Talib Khan by Ahirwar was truly Tabbu Rajput, grandson of Binde Rajpur, a Hindu household. Neelam ran away in 2015 as she was allegedly being pressured by her household to marry. She was despatched to Usha Kiran Mahila Ashram by the Child Welfare Committee, and subsequently married Tabbu.
The police mentioned that on July 7 they discovered that Neelam was taken to Jhansi for therapy on account of deteriorating well being. “A police party had been sent to Jhansi for further information,” mentioned SP Sharma.

Ahirwar together with different teams assembled exterior the circuit home on Friday and demanded to fulfill Saklecha. Satendra Singh, prant seh-sanjoy of Chhatarpur, mentioned, “The minister was having lunch and our workers were standing in the sun while police had failed to act. The police are now peddling a different story. We will protest tomorrow with evidence that Neelam was married as per Muslim law.”