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  • Reconstitution of Devaswom Boards, regulation in opposition to ‘love jihad’ in Kerala to be a part of NDA manifesto: DV Sadanand Gowda

    By Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-led NDA will reconstitute Devaswom Boards in order to entrust the administration of temples with the believers and likewise enact a regulation to forestall ‘love jihad’ within the state if voted to energy, Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda has stated. He added that these two guarantees might be part of the NDA election manifesto as properly.

    Gowda was within the state capital to launch the NDA’s  ‘cost sheet’ in opposition to the LDF authorities. The Union Minister stated the NDA was assured that if voted to energy, any assurances it has given to the individuals of the state can be applied throughout the subsequent 5 years. He stated that if the BJP authorities assumes energy within the state when the Modi authorities is ruling the Centre, it could present a ‘golden alternative for the state.        

    The NDA ‘cost sheet’ lists out the alleged failures of the LDF authorities on numerous fronts. The state authorities’s dealing with of the Sabarimala challenge, lack of ability to regulate Covid,  police excesses, nepotism, the extravagance of the administration and scams in reference to numerous authorities offers are its highlights.

    The ‘dictatorial’ fashion of functioning of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, political murders, the collapse of regulation and order, rising circumstances of atrocities in opposition to girls and SC/STs, financial stagnation and the crumbling agriculture and public sector additionally discover point out within the ‘chargesheet’

    “Relatives of ministers and wives of Left leaders were having a field day during the LDF regime. While the youth who had written PSC exams dreamt of a job, those who were close to the MLAs and leaders made the most of the situation,” the chargesheet alleged.

    While itemizing out the ‘misdeeds’ of the state authorities, the chargesheet additionally exhorted individuals to liberate the state from the LDF’s anti-people insurance policies and to present a mandate for a ‘new Kerala’.

  • Haryana’s proposed ‘love jihad’ legislation: RTI reveals 3 accused discovered harmless in solely 4 related circumstances

    With Haryana’s BJP-JJP authorities planning to convey a Bill on “love jihad” within the upcoming Budget Session of the Assembly, an RTI question has revealed that solely 4 circumstances had been registered over related expenses in six districts of the state over the past three years. Two circumstances had been cancelled by the police after a probe, whereas the accused within the third case was acquitted by the court docket. The fourth case is pending earlier than a court docket.
    According to the knowledge procured from police officers by RTI activist P P Kapoor, no case of “love jihad” was reported from three districts Hisar, Faridabad and Yamunanagar over the previous three years. “A case lodged in Punhana police station of Mewat area on December 12, 2020 was cancelled after the police inquiry,” says Kapoor. Similarly, a case lodged in Ambala district has additionally been cancelled after a police probe whereas the accused in one other case in the identical district has been acquitted by the court docket. A case lodged in Samalkha police station of Panipat district on July 19, 2019 continues to be pending in court docket.
    Kapoor stated he sought info from district officers of Nuh (Mewat), Yamunanagar, Faridabad, Hisar, Panipat and Ambala, which have a substantial Muslim inhabitants. He particularly sought info relating to complaints and FIRs associated to the circumstances of “love jihad”.
    Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij had earlier introduced a strict legislation will likely be enacted to manage “love jihad” circumstances within the state. When contacted on Wednesday, Vij didn’t reply to a textual content message and a cellphone name.
    Kapoor says he had sought the figures relating to circumstances of affection jihad from state police headquarters too three months again however is but to obtain a response.
    On this, a senior police officer stated, “The police don’t have any data (at state level) on love jihad. Love jihad is a term coined by the politicians and media. So, the police, except in the cases involving atrocities on SC/STs, don’t maintain data according to the religion of the victim and the accused. For us, a crime is a crime. Since, love jihad is not defined in the IPC, how can we tell how many such cases took place.”

  • Love jihad regulation in upcoming House session: Rupani at Godhra rally

    The Gujarat authorities will usher in a regulation on “love jihad” within the forthcoming Assembly session, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani stated Thursday at a rally in Godhra. “It will not be tolerated now that a Hindu girl is being abducted by anybody. By the law on love jihad, the activity of religious conversion of girls by luring them will be checked,” Rupani stated whereas itemizing his authorities’s initiatives for upkeep of regulation and order.
    The remarks come after Rupani’s deputy Nitin Patel made related feedback at one other rally in Ahmedabad.
    At the Godhra rally, Rupani additionally focused the Congress, saying that the stands uncovered as even the Muslims have voted in opposition to it—referring to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections the place the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen gained seven seats.

    “Muslims too have understood Congress. And in these elections, eight seats (sic) have been won by (Asaduddin) Owaisi’s party in Ahmedabad. Even Muslims now want to get free from Congress because (of its) vote bank politics. (It) saw people as votes and not as human beings,” the Chief Minister stated.
    Accusing the Congress of not serving the individuals through the pandemic, Rupani stated a destiny just like the civic ballot defeat awaited the celebration within the elections to the panchayats and nagarpalikas later this month.

  • UP: FIR towards Muslim man from Karnataka after teen goes lacking

    Gorakhpur police has registered an FIR towards a Muslim man from Karnataka for allegedly kidnapping a 19-year-old girl from the district and forcing her to transform.
    The FIR has been lodged below sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing girl to compel her marriage, and so forth) and 363 (kidnapping) of the IPC and below the brand new anti-conversion legislation in Uttar Pradesh.
    The FIR was registered every week after the girl’s father lodged a lacking individual report when she didn’t return from faculty.
    Police officers stated one Mehboob has been named within the FIR on the premise of the girl’s name information and that they aren’t positive concerning the id of the accused. A quantity within the name report was traced to Karnataka and a police group from Chiluatal police station in Gorakhpur has now left for there.
    On January 5, the girl’s father, a retired Armyman, filed a lacking individual report, stating that he dropped his daughter at school the day earlier than however she didn’t return.
    Per week later, based mostly on the girl’s name element information, the daddy alleged that one Mehboob grew to become her pal in 2019 after introducing himself as Hindu and had now kidnapped her. “I am sure that Mehboob can pressure my daughter for conversion…I have also come to know that he took my daughter on the pretext of getting her a job at a company,” the daddy has alleged within the FIR.
    Chiluatal SHO Niraj Kumar Rai stated, “The allegation is that a Muslim youth lured his daughter and took her away to pressure her for conversion. The father did not have any information about the accused earlier and a missing person report was filed on January 5.”
    “Following that, we checked the call detail record and found a number. On checking caller ID application Truecaller, we found the name Mehboob. The girl’s friends told us that she used to talk to this guy. Her father suspected that he is Muslim and based on that, the allegation of love jihad and forceful conversion has been made,” stated Rai.

    “At this point, we cannot be sure if Mehboob is the original name of the person. Everything is based on the complaint and things would be clear once the woman is recovered. The location of the number is in Karnataka and a team has been sent there to recover her. The girl is a major and we cannot confirm ‘love jihad’ or if the girl has married or has changed her religion,” he added.
    Campiarganj circle officer Rahul Bhati stated the police group is predicted to achieve Karnataka quickly.

  • 30-day discover interval not obligatory underneath Special Marriage Act: Allahabad High Court

    In a judgment eradicating hindrances to inter-faith marriages, and prone to have a bearing on the set of legal guidelines enacted by BJP-ruled states together with Uttar Pradesh that prohibit spiritual conversion for marriage, the Allahabad High Court has dominated that {couples} looking for to solemnise their marriage underneath the Special Marriage Act, 1954 can select to not publish the obligatory 30-day discover of their intention to marry.
    Section 5 of the Special Marriage Act, the laws that enables solemnisation of marriages no matter the faith of the couple, requires events to present a 30-day public discover of their intention to marry. The public discover is displayed on the workplace of the wedding officer, inviting potential objections to the wedding.
    In his order Tuesday, Justice Vivek Chaudhary mentioned: “The interpretation of Sections 6 and 7 read with Section 46 containing the procedure of publication of notice and inviting objections to the intended marriage in Act of 1954 thus has to be such that would uphold the fundamental rights and not violate the same. In case the same on their simplistic reading are held mandatory, as per the law declared today, they would invade in the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy, including within its sphere freedom to choose for marriage without interference from state and non-state actors, of the persons concerned.”
    He clarified that “in case such individuals applying to solemnize their marriage under the Act of 1954 themselves by their free choice desire that they would like to have more information about their counterparts, they can definitely opt for publication of notice under Section 6 and further procedure with regard to objections to be followed. Such publication of notice and further procedure would not be violative of their fundamental rights as they adopt the same of their free will”.

    ExplainedNotice violates privatenessThe ruling comes as a reduction to inter-faith {couples} who’re being more and more focused by vigilante teams. The court docket famous the influence that comparable provisions in anti-conversion legal guidelines may have.

    As the Special Marriage Act is a central laws, {couples} throughout the nation looking for to marry underneath the legislation would profit from the liberal studying of the provisions by the Allahabad High Court ruling.
    Justice Chaudhary’s order famous that in view of the “changed social circumstances and progress in laws noted and proposed by the Law Commission” and judgments of the Supreme Court, “it would be cruel and unethical to force the present generation living with its current needs and expectations to follow the customs and traditions adopted by a generation living nearly 150 years back for its social needs and circumstances, which violates fundamental rights recognized by the courts of the day… it is the duty of this court to revisit the interpretation of the procedure under challenge as provided in the Act of 1954”.
    He cited landmark progressive rulings on the suitable to privateness by the Supreme Court, together with the 2017 Aadhaar case which recognised the suitable to privateness as a elementary proper, the 2018 ruling which held that the suitable to decide on a companion is a elementary proper within the case involving Hadiya, a medical pupil who transformed to Islam to marry a Muslim, and the 2018 ruling wherein the court docket decriminalised homosexuality.The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, which declares conversion of faith by marriage to be illegal, mandates a 60-day discover to the District Magistrate and likewise requires the Magistrate to conduct a police inquiry to establish the actual intention behind the conversion.
    In 2012, the Himachal Pradesh High Court had struck down comparable provisions that required discover of intention in case of non secular conversion within the Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2006, citing that it violates the elemental proper to privateness. However, the state, repealing the 2006 legislation, enacted a legislation in 2019 with the identical provisions that the court docket struck down.
    The Special Marriage Act to supply a framework for inter-caste and inter-religious marriages was initially enacted in 1872. Despite adjustments and variations, the 1954 legislation retained the Victorian-era protectionist provisions.Justice Chaudhary took up the difficulty of discover underneath the Special Marriage Act being violative of elementary rights when he recognised that this provision is commonly an obstacle to inter-faith {couples} desirous to marry underneath the secular legislation.

    The case was filed initially as a writ petition by Safiya Sultana who transformed to turn out to be a Hindu and took the identify Simran to marry Abhishek Kumar Pandey as per Hindu rituals. Simran’s plea was towards her father who didn’t approve of her marriage and had illegally detained her.
    Based on interactions with Simran and her father, the court docket discovered that the couple had married as per their needs. However, in the course of the interplay, the court docket discovered that the couple had actually wished to marry underneath the Special Marriage Act, however the 30-day discover compelled them to take the route of non secular conversion because it was faster.The court docket additionally famous that regardless of the secular legislation for marriage, a majority of marriages within the nation occur as per spiritual customs. It mentioned that when marriages underneath private legislation don’t require a discover or invitation for objections, such a requirement is out of date in secular legislation and can’t be compelled on a pair.

  • A brand new twist within the case of Love Jihad in Bareilly

    Highlights: The FIR was lodged by the coed on December 1, a day after the police investigation, the case turned out to be pretend. In September final yr, the lady was staying with a younger man, a brand new twist has come within the case of Love Jihad in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. . According to the Bareilly police, the criticism given by the lady to three Muslim youth, together with her kinfolk, to get married and pressurize the faith was false. Explain that the police had registered a case on the criticism of the coed. But a day later the police investigation discovered the criticism pretend. Police stated that the youths weren’t in Bareilly on the time when the lady made a criticism towards the three Muslim youths on December 1. The SSP stated that now a report might be filed towards the complainant below Section 182 of the IPC. According to the coed’s uncle, Gummudgeepulis stated the coed of Bareilly Nursing College was in touch with a younger man for a yr and in September final yr he Started residing collectively. The scholar’s uncle had filed a lacking report. Police discovered him 9 days later. Last month, the lady received married to a different individual from her neighborhood. At the identical time, the police stated that on Saturday, two different individuals apart from the younger man’s pal and his neighbor have been launched after questioning. The case of Faridpur Tehsil of Bareilly is within the case of Faridpur Tehsil of Bareilly. It is alleged that stress was placed on a Hindu lady for marriage. Police received into motion on the coed’s tahrir. Simultaneously, the motion was additionally expedited for the arrest of the accused. The accused had been following the coed for a number of months. On 1 December, when the coed was coming back from her scooty after learning from Bareilly, she was stopped by the accused on the flip of Naugama. During this time, the accused began pulling the lady’s scooty, when Naugama and younger man from Faridpur have been passing by. After this, the younger man fled from the scene threatening him. .

  • Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Cabinet’s nod for promulgation of ‘anti-love jihad’ ordinance

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    Image Source : GOOGLE Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Cabinet’s nod for promulgation of ‘anti-love jihad’ ordinance 
    The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday accepted the Dharma Swatantrata (Religious Freedom) Ordinance, 2020 to test the rising instances of “love jihad” within the state. It has been despatched to Governor for last assent.

    The ordinance was accepted throughout a particular Cabinet session which was presided over by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal.

    The Bharatiya Janata Party authorities within the landlocked state took the ordinance route very like the Uttar Pradesh to enact the regulation to test compelled spiritual conversion.

    This comes after the three-day Assembly session was annulled because of rising coronavirus instances. The Assembly session was annulled by a joint committee of all leaders on Sunday night time. 

    READ MORE: Vishwa Hindu Parishad calls for nationwide regulation in opposition to ‘love jihad’

    The Cabinet had final week accepted the Madhya Pradesh Religious Freedom Bill, 2020. The Bill was accepted on Saturday and would have been tabled within the upcoming Assembly session however the session has now been cancelled. 

    Under this regulation, there’s a provision of awarding a most of 10 years imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 1 lakh for forceful conversion of any individual underneath the pretext of marriage. Strict provisions have been made on this regulation to forestall forceful spiritual conversions. According to this regulation, it’s thought of illegal for any individual to lure, threaten and take pleasure in forceful spiritual conversions.

    READ MORE: Not in favour of legal guidelines in opposition to conversion for marriage: JDU

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