UP: Interfaith Marriage Forcibly Stopped by Hindutva Group
Though members of the Karni Sena had said that the woman was being converted forcefully, the police denied this claim.
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New Delhi: An apparently consensual interfaith wedding was stopped by members of the Karni Sena who called it a case of ‘love jihad’ at a local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, according to an Indian Express report.
‘Love jihad’ is an imagined conspiracy that is pushed by right wing groups, who claim that Muslim women marry Hindu women only for the purpose of converting them to Islam. Several states, including Uttar Pradesh, have passed laws that are ostensibly against forced religious conversion but have frequently been used to target consensual interfaith couples.