Panel set up to draft law against ‘love jihad’: Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij

Chandigarh, November 26 Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij today said the government had set up a three-member committee to draft a law against “love jihad” to check forcible religious conversions on the pretext of marriage. Comprising Home Secretary TL Satyaprakash,...

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Updated At : 12:56 PM Nov 27, 2020 IST

Chandigarh, November 26

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij today said the government had set up a three-member committee to draft a law against “love jihad” to check forcible religious conversions on the pretext of marriage.

Comprising Home Secretary TL Satyaprakash, ADGP Navdeep Singh Virk and Additional Advocate General Deepak Manchanda, the panel would study a similar law enacted by other states, including MP and UP.

Vij had recently said in the Assembly that the state government was considering a law against “love jihad”. The minister was replying to a calling attention motion on the murder of Ballabhgarh girl Nikita outside her college allegedly by a youth, Tauseef, who wanted to “kidnap her for marriage”. — TNS

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