{"id":667,"date":"2018-01-14T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=667"},"modified":"2018-01-14T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:14:47","slug":"love-jihad-is-for-real-nia-tells-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/love-jihad-is-for-real-nia-tells-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Jihad is For Real, NIA Tells Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;<strong>\u00a0news18.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #404040;\">New Delhi:<\/strong><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0The National Investigation agency on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that \u2018love jihad\u2019 is for real. Top sources within the agency told CNN-News18 that their investigations into the Popular Front of India in the last few years was the basis of this claim.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">NIA submitted a 22-page report to the Supreme Court in which references were made to PFI cases in Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">The apex court had asked the NIA for a report on \u2018love jihad\u2019 after one Shafin Jahan challenged the annulment of his marriage to a\u00a0Hindu woman by the Kerala High Court last December.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Jahan is reportedly a member of\u00a0Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political wing\u00a0of\u00a0PFI. NIA\u2019s chargesheet in the murder case of RSS worker Rudresh stated that PFI and its affiliated political organisation SDPI had conspired to attack and kill Rudresh to strike terror among a section of people\u00a0and also to establish an Islamic caliphate. Rudresh was killed in October 2016 in Bengaluru.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Sources said NIA\u2019s report to the Supreme Court also made a mention of the Athira-Ayesha conversion case. The Kasargod girl had allegedly converted to Islam against the wishes of her parents and NIA had done a preliminary enquiry in the matter.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">A report submitted by the NIA to the Kerala High Court in 2016 said that a criminal case for forced conversion\u00a0was filed in the case.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">NIA has been investigating PFI in at least three cases &#8211; the\u00a0professor arms chopping case of 2015, the Kannur arms training camp case of 2013 and murder of the RSS activist.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Sources say investigators noticed a pattern of \u2018love jihad&#8217;\u00a0or forced\u00a0religious conversion during these investigations. Kerala Police has also handed over\u00a0nearly 2,500 pages of documents in support of its claim that forced conversion is part of a greater conspiracy in Kerala.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">In the case of the Kerala woman, the Supreme Court made it clear that it will speak to the 25-year-old Hindu woman before deciding validity of her marriage to Jahan after her conversion to Islam.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">A bench led by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar asked the NIA to investigate under guidance of its former judge R V Raveendran after the lawyers for the Muslim man, whose marriage was annulled by the Kerala High Court, gave their consent to the probe.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/love-jihad-is-for-real-nia-tells-supreme-court\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0news18.com New Delhi:\u00a0The National Investigation agency on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that \u2018love jihad\u2019 is for real. Top sources within the agency told CNN-News18 that their investigations into the Popular Front of India in the last few years was the basis of this claim.NIA submitted a 22-page report to the Supreme Court in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,7],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-love-jihad","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}