Love Jihad Case: An Odia couple has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to save their pharmacist daughter from ‘love jihad’. Hearing this petition, the top court has issued notices to Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh to file their affidavits in the matter by July 23.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sent notices to the Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh administration in a case related to ‘love jihad’. The notice has been sent by the Supreme Court on a petition filed by a couple from Odisha in which they sought to save their pharmacist daughter from ‘love jihad’. The term love jihad entered the history of the Supreme Court in the year 2017-18 in the Hadiya-Safin Jahan case of Kerala.
A bench of Justice UU Lalit, Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Aniruddha Bose, who went missing after marriage with a Muslim youth, after hearing the arguments of advocate Sudarshan Menon, issued notice to the government in the matter relating to three states and union territories. During the hearing, the lawyer told the story of the girl marrying a Muslim youth in Chandigarh and then disappearing. The lawyer said that where is the daughter after marriage, in what condition, the parents have no information about it. His daughter has gone missing after marriage. The Supreme Court has asked the respondents to file counter-affidavits by July 23, the next date of hearing.
Habeas corpus petition was filed in the Supreme Court
Earlier, the girl’s parents Kabita and Kedarnath had filed a habeas corpus writ in the Supreme Court fearing threat to their daughter’s life. His daughter studied B Pharma with a youth from Jammu and Kashmir in Berhampur, Odisha, before moving to Lucknow. Then went to Chandigarh in search of job and got married. His last clue was found in Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, after that he is missing. The young man whom the girl married is a resident of Bandipora.
Not opposed to inter-religious marriage but the
girl’s parents forcibly with the daughter said that the daughter should marry in any religion or caste, they have no objection to it. He said that if his daughter marries a Hindu, Christian or Muslim boy of his choice, he will not harm anyone. He said that he suspects that his daughter has been coerced into marriage. He told that he has received news of a young man marrying his daughter joining the syndicate of hunting Hindu girls.
The missing parents , who after withdrawing the petition from the High Court , said that they went to Chandigarh and tried to bring the daughter with them, but their efforts failed. He told that his daughter along with the Muslim youth approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court for protection. Later the petition was withdrawn and they both disappeared. The parents said that we could not get in touch with the daughter. He feared that the syndicate of criminals might compel him to commit illegal activities or acts dangerous to national security.
