AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the state government to explain why it is objecting to quashing of criminal charges, including violation of anti-conversion laws, against the husband, in-laws and the priest for solemnizing the marriage even after the victim asserted that the FIR was not true and that she wanted to continue with her matrimonial life in the state’s first “love jihad” case.
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The high court has rightly issued a show cause notice in this regard. This is the peril of turning a personal matter into a political campaign and state policy.
The woman has submitted in her petition that she had gone to Gotri police station in Vadodara to report certain petty and trivial issue due to her matrimonial discord which she believed can be covered under Section 498A of the IPC. “However, at this stage, certain religio-political groups intervened in the matter and communalised the issue by bringing in the love jihad angle. Also, on account of the overzealousness of the police officers involved, facts and offences which were never mentioned or alleged by the informant came to be inserted in the FIR,” the petition said.
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