CM warns those who ‘play with honor of sisters, daughters’
(Milcah Anila, Intern Journalist) Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Cheif Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said his government would bring an “effective law” against ‘love jihad’ a slur politically used by the right-wing to target interfaith relationships and marriages involving a Muslim man.
The Cheif Minister also issued a “warning” to those who “Played with the honor” of “sisters and daughters” by concealing their identities and operating secretly. If they did not mend their ways, then their”Ram Naam Satya Yatra (funeral processions)” would be taken out, he said.
Raising the issue in his campaign for the Malhani by-election in Jaunpur, Mr. Adityanath said, “The government is making a decision that we will take tough measures to curb love jihad.”
High Court Order
Mr. Adityanath referred to a recent order by the Allahabad High Court in which it dismissed a writ petition by a married couple seeking police protection, nothing that the girl, who was a Muslim by birth, had converted to the Hindu faith just a month before the marriage was solemnized.
The Order was passed by the court on September 23 but became public last week.
“The court… found that the first petitioner has converted her religion on 29.6.2020 and just after one month, they have solemnized their marriage on 31.7.2020, which reveals to this court that the said conversion has taken place only for marriage,” said Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi.
The court said in the facts and circumstances it was not inclined to interfere in the matter under Article 226 of the Constitution.
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