By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kochi: The Karnataka government has ordered for a probe by the Criminal Investigation Department to know whether an organisation called ‘love jihad’ was functioning in the state. The decision was taken in the high level meeting of police officers presided over by the state Home Minister VS Acharya.
The DGP and the CID will conduct a detailed probe and submit report to the government in two weeks. More information would be collected about the existence, alleged funding and support of the ‘love jihad’. The DGP would collect more information on the missing girls also. Further decisions as to how to curb the forced conversions, if any, would be taken after the reports are submitted.
The Karnataka High Court had ordered the government to probe into the matter of the alleged ‘love jihad’ when hearing the habeas corpus filed by the parents of a girl from Mysore. The girl had married a Muslim boy from Kannur in Kerala and had converted to Islam. When produced in court, the girl had reportedly said that she had converted on her own will, yet the court asked her to be sent with her parents and to conduct an investigation on her husband. The girl has to live with her parents till the investigation on the boy is completed.
In Kerala also, two girls who had converted to Islam and married Muslim boys were sent with their parents by the High Court when the girls’ parents filed habeas corpus. The Court ordered probe into alleged ‘love jihad’ when considering the case. The state DGP submitted areport in the court on October 22 stating that such an organisation did not exist. The Central Intelligence Bureau also has informed the Kerala High Court yesterday that there was no evidence for a movement called ‘love jihad’ in the state.
Meanwhile, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties has decided to oppose the order of the High Court in the Supreme Court. The PUCL maintains that the HC decision to send the woman, who had converted to Islam and married a Muslim, with her Hindu parents was not right.