A dating can not be dubbed as a shape of `love jihad’ simply due to the fact the boy and the female belong to distinct religions, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has stated even as granting pre-arrest bail to a Muslim lady and her own circle of relatives. A department bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Abhay Waghwase withinside the order exceeded on February 26 granted anticipatory bail to the accused who have been denied comfort through a neighborhood courtroom docket in Aurangabad.
The lady’s former lover had alleged she and her own circle of relatives pressured him to transform to Islam and go through circumcision. he guy’s lawyer, even as opposing the pre-arrest bail programs of the lady and her own circle of relatives members, additionally argued that it became a case of ‘love jihad’.
‘Love jihad’ is a time period utilized by Hindu right-wing companies to claim, with out evidence, that there’s a substantial conspiracy to entice Hindu ladies and convert them to Islam thru marriage. Here, though, the accuser became a guy.
The excessive courtroom docket rejected the affection jihad argument, stating that the person, withinside the First Information Report (FIR), had admitted he became in a dating with the lady and did now no longer give up the connection in spite of having numerous opportunities.
“Merely due to the fact the boy and female are from distinct religions, it can not have a spiritual angle. It may be a case of natural love for every other,” the courtroom docket stated.
“It seems that now the shade has been attempted to accept of affection jihad, however whilst love is well-known then there’s much less opportunity of the individual being trapped only for changing him into the other’s religion,” it added. As according to the prosecution case, the person and the lady have been in a dating because March 2018. The guy belonged to a Scheduled Caste network however did now no longer expose this to the lady.
Later, the lady started out insisting he have to convert to Islam and marry her, and then the person disclosed his caste identification to her parents. They did now no longer item to his caste identification and satisfied their daughter to simply accept it.
But the members of the family later became sour, following which the person lodged a case towards the lady and her own circle of relatives in December 2022.The HC, even as granting pre-arrest bail to the lady and her own circle of relatives, stated the probe into the case became nearly over and consequently their custody might now no longer be necessary.
