‘Love jihad’: Court seeks better police probe
October 26th, 2009 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
- Kochi (Kerala), Oct 26 (IANS) The Kerala High Court Monday is unhappy over the nature of police investigations into charges that Muslim men were marrying and forcibly converting non-Muslim women to Islam in a practice dubbed ‘love jihad’.
Families of a Hindu and a Christian woman, who married their Muslim classmates in a Pathanamthitta college and converted to Islam, claimed fundamentalists were luring non-Muslim girls to convert “in an organised manner”.
Early this month, Justice K.T. Shankaran, rejecting the anticipatory bail plea of the two Muslim men, asked Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose to conduct a detailed study on ‘love jihad’.
The police, in its report, said that no love jihad or ‘romeo jihad’ existed in the state. But in the last paragraph of the report said there were suspicions that some conversions may have taken place in this manner.
The court asked police to investigate thoroughly and file a report by Nov 11.
Punnoose told reporters that police had submitted an interim report and a detailed one will be filed later.
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