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This is very embarassing.....i am ashamed as an indian that such news has been aired on a popular news channel of india.......what has religion to do with love??......,.if we are secular what matters if muslims have greater popularity if they are secular minded(not like some across the border)??.......idiots,bloody idiots these reporters are......
Kerala has a new concern: love jihad. The state High Court on Wednesday directed the Kerala Police and Union Home Ministry to probe the alleged movement, under which young Muslim boys reportedly target college girls for conversion by feigning love.
The court also asked the state and Centre to look into the sources that fund the love jihad, the number of girls who have got trapped in the racket in the past three years and its extremist links, if any.
Justice K T Sankaran was hearing anticipatory bail applications of two Muslim youths, accused of luring two MBA students into marriage for reportedly the purpose of religious conversion. The court rejected their bail pleas.
The two youths were allegedly associated with Campus Front, a student outfit of the right-wing Muslim organisation Popular Front of India (PFI).
Earlier this month, the parents of the two girls had filed a habeus corpus in the high court after their daughters were found missing. On being produced in court, the girls deposed that they were trapped by the youths and forced to convet to Islam. Allowing them to go with their parents, the court had asked the police to probe the charges of forced conversion after trapping girls in love affairs.
The students, originally residents of Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram, had been studying in a college in Pathanamthitta. According to them, one of them fell in love with a senior and eloped to marry him. This senior allegedly handed over the other girl to his friend. The girls told the court that they were taken to a centre in Malappuram where they were given literature and shown visuals promoting religious extremism
No Conclusive Evidence of 'Love Jihad' in Kerala
Kochi | Nov 11, 2009
Kerala Police today told the High Court that no conclusive evidence had been received about existence of 'Love Jihad' movement, where young non-Muslim girls are allegedly trapped into marriage and converted into Islam.
In a statement filed in the court, Director General of Police Jacob Punnose said he could not come to "a definite all conclusive finding" due to divergence in contents of reports from SPs of different districts and subordinate officers on the organised work of the 'Love Jihad' in the state.
The DGP also submitted 18 reports of SPs in a sealed cover to the court, complying with its October 26 directive.
The court had expressed dissatisfaction with the DGP's earlier statement, saying some of his answers were 'vague' and statements did not 'reconcile' with each other. It had directed him to produce by today in a sealed cover the reports based on which he made his statements on the 'Love Jihad'.
The DGP, in a statement on Oct 22, had told the court there were reasons to suspect 'concentrated attempts' to persuade non-Muslim girls to convert to Islam after they fall in love with Muslim boys, but no organisation called 'Love Jihad' had been identified so far in the state.
Punnose in his statement today said he had received some information from some units based on "source inputs" which suggested 'clandestine design' of certain groups aimed at religious conversion through "deceitful means".
He said the contents of three reports lacked supportive evidence and were often based on hearsay. No cogent material was available in the three reports to make an unambiguous statement on the truth of allegations of forced conversions.
The contents of the reports require further enquiries, he stated.
The issue of the so called 'Love Jihad' had also been raised in the Karnataka High Court which on October 26 had directed the state and the Kerala police to jointly probe the matter and submit a report by November 13.
The court also extended the time granted to the Centre to file a statement on 'Love Jihad' till December one.
Justice Sankaran granted the time following a request in this regard from the central government counsel.
During the last hearing on October 26, the court had directed a responsible officer of the central government to file a report by November 11.
Justice Sankaran today pointed out that a local Malayalam newspaper had made some adverse remarks about him as he was considering the case. The judge said he was 'not bothered' about the remarks and 'the duty of the court was to administer justice'.
In another development, Association of Human Rights, an NGO, filed an application in the court seeking to restrain the court and the media from using the word 'Jihad'. According to them, 'Jihad' is a spiritual terminology.
It's amazing that a Tv channel of IBN-CNN status giving this news!!!!!
It's totally ridiculous!!!
It shows how the fascist their creates new stories to target Indian muslims by all means.
Love Jehadis!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a word!!!!!!
It belongs to the same category as created by western media e.g. Islamic Terrorists, Islamic Fundamentalists, Islamo-Fascists etc.
Indians call themselves as a secular society this clip made me laugh so sharing it here.