The complainant was a 20-year-old girl who was pursuing a pc course
Bareilly:
The goal of “love jihad” is to ascertain dominance by sure anti-social parts of a specific faith in opposition to India by means of demographic warfare and worldwide conspiracy, an area courtroom right here has noticed.
Additional District Judge (Fast Track Court) Ravi Kumar Diwakar mentioned Hindu women are being lured into “love” for the sake of unlawful conversions and create circumstances just like these in Pakistan and Bangladesh in India.
Diwakar mentioned that unlawful conversions pose a big risk to the nation’s unity, integrity, and sovereignty as he heard a case involving marriage beneath false identities, relationships, and abortion on Monday.
The decide made the remarks whereas sentencing 25-year-old Mohammad Alim to life imprisonment, convicting him for raping and threatening a scholar after falsifying his identification.
His 65-year-old father too was sentenced to a two-year jail time period for aiding the person within the crimes.
The complainant within the matter was a 20-year-old girl who was pursuing a pc course within the metropolis.
There is “a conspiracy to create circumstances just like these in Pakistan and Bangladesh,” Judge Diwakar warned.
Alim, a local of Jadaunpur village of the Devarnia space, had deceived the lady by posing as ‘Anand’.
The courtroom additionally ordered that copies of the ruling be despatched to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police.
The courtroom mentioned that conversions are being carried out by means of psychological strain and inducements similar to marriage and jobs, and in addition expressed considerations about potential international funding.
If the problem will not be addressed in time, it may result in extreme penalties, it noticed.
The courtroom identified that the Uttar Pradesh authorities enacted the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021, particularly to fight unlawful conversions by means of “Love Jihad.” “The Constitution grants each particular person the elemental proper to follow and propagate their faith, and this private freedom can’t be compromised by means of unlawful conversions facilitated by ‘Love Jihad’,” it famous.
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