RANCHI: Ranchi family court on Tuesday granted divorce to national-level shooter Tara Shahdeo from her husband Ranjeet Singh Kohli alias Rakib ul Hassan on grounds of cruelty.
In her divorce petition filed in January 2017, Shahdeo alleged that Kohli had married her in July 2014 without informing that he was a Muslim. Post-marriage, he began torturing her to force her into embracing Islam.
The allegations had sparked a controversy with the Union home ministry seeking a report on the purported case of ‘love jihad’. Then CM
Hemant Soren later referred the case to the CBI on Shahdeo’s request.
Shahdeo’s lawyer argued that his client was made to believe that Kohli was a Hindu. “However, when she went to her in-law’s house, she found the environment similar to that of a Muslim family. The next day, the family brought a Muslim religious head to the house to solemnize the marriage under Islamic traditions. When she protested, Tara was confined to a house and was subjected to cruelty,” he said.
Principal judge of family court B K Gautam granted adivorce to Shahdeo, saying that evidence revealed that she was subjected to cruelty by Kohli and no one has the right to force any person to change his/her religion.