A Special Investigation Team looking into alleged love jihad cases in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur has found that 11 out of the 14 incidents wer...
A Special Investigation Team looking into alleged love jihad cases in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur has found that 11 out of the 14 incidents were criminal, reported The Hindu, citing a senior police officer. The police added that they also found no proof that those involved in the cases were receiving foreign funding or that it was an organised conspiracy.
The team was set up after 14 cases were reported where the girls’ parents had claimed that Muslim boys had duped their daughters and “trapped them in love”. Inspector General of Kanpur Mohit Agarwal said the SIT investigation did not find any links to foreign funding, adding that the accused did change their names and some established relationship with minors.
After some sort of criminality was revealed in 11 cases, those involved were sent to prison. In the remaining three cases, the police found that the women were adults and were in a relationship with Muslim men of their free will. “No action would be taken in such cases,” the police officer told The Hindu.
The SIT, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Vikas Pandey, submitted its report to Agarwal on Monday after investigating the 14 cases, registered all over Kanpur in the last two years, reported The Indian Express. Chargesheets have been filed in eight of these...
