CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his home minister Anil Vij on Sunday said that the BJP-JJP coalition government too is considering a legislation to check the so-called incidents of ‘love jihad’ — relationships between Muslim men and Hindu women to deliberately convert the religion of these women— as anger in the state grows over the murder of 21-year-old college student by her stalker, who was her former classmate, last week in Ballabhgarh.
Speaking in Karnal on the occasion of 55 th Haryana Day, the chief minister said the “incident is linked with the ‘love jihad’ issue,” adding that both the Centre and the state government were “taking the ‘love jihad’ issue very seriously.”
Two governments, he said, were taking “legal advice so that such incidents are not repeated. Legal provisions are being contemplated so that the guilty don’t escape and innocents are not punished.”
After murder of Nikita Tomar outside her college in Ballabhgarh on October 26, her family had alleged that her stalker Tauseef, who belongs to an influential political family from Mewat, had abducted her two years ago and had tried to get her to convert to Islam and marry him. However, at that time, the FIR did not include these details.