The Supreme Court has asked the National Investigation Agency to probe what has come to be dubbed “love jihad.”
This was done after the top probe agency told the apex court on August 16 that there was evidence to suggest that some extremist outfits linked to a banned group were involved in converting Hindu girls to Islam and their gradual radicalization toward the Islamic State’s ideology.
The bench of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud took on record a sealed report of the central agency’s preliminary findings, reports telegraphindia.com.
State police chief Loknath Behera has said that there is no confirmed case of ‘Love Jihad’ reported in Kerala.
The report, which appeared in a section of the media saying the state police chief has confirmed that ‘Love Jihad’ is there in state, is wrong, the DGP said in a statement issued on August 26, 2017.
“I only said that we are keeping an eye on the allegations from various quarters that there is radicalization through conversion using various means taking place in Kerala. The Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into such an allegation in one case (Hadiya case). So it is our duty to find out whether that is correct or not,” he said.
