According to constabulary officials, right-wing groups descended connected the tribunal premises aft being tipped disconnected by “sources” astir the mates deciding to registry their marriage. (Video screengrab)
An interfaith mates who visited a tribunal successful Bhopal to registry their matrimony was allegedly targeted by members of right-wing outfits, who assaulted the antheral and accused him of “love jihad”.
The incident, which took spot successful a engaged courtroom, was captured connected video, which has since dispersed online.
According to constabulary officials, right-wing groups descended connected the tribunal premises aft being tipped disconnected by “sources” astir the mates deciding to registry their marriage.
The man, a nonmigratory of Narsinghpur, had travelled to Bhopal with the woman, but could not implicit the tribunal formalities, constabulary officials said.
Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, president of the Sanskriti Bachao Manch, which was among the outfits, alleged that the antheral had “multiple photographs and interaction numbers of Hindu women connected his telephone and had coerced his spouse into marriage.”
The radical demanded that the constabulary “charge the antheral nether sections of rape.”
Bhopal ACP Akshay Chaudhary confirmed the incidental and said, “We person placed the mates nether constabulary protection. Further enactment volition beryllium taken based connected the woman’s statement.”
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Police said the woman’s parents person been called and her connection volition beryllium recorded erstwhile they arrive.
“The mates was called for verification earlier the tribunal since they are from antithetic faiths,” Chaudhary said. He added that based connected the man’s statement, they volition instrumentality enactment against his assailants. No apprehension has been made truthful far.
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