Up Love Jihad Cases

NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi have won the International Press Institute (IPI) India Excellence in Journalism Award, 2021.

A young Muslim teen in west Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, 430 km from Lucknow, has spent over 20 days in jail after an incident last month where he and a 16-year-old Hindu girl, walking home from a friend's birthday event, were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station. The matter escalated to a case being filed under the state's controversial new...

Two teenagers walking home from a friend's birthday party in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of "love jihad" under a controversial new anti-conversion law.

Two people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district in separate cases under the state's new anti-conversion law, police said on Monday.

Two men, arrested under UP's anti-conversion law, freed. Cops couldn't produce evidence, say sources

Four former judges have criticised the new anti-conversion ordinance of Uttar Pradesh, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", calling it unconstitutional, against fundamental rights, and one of the strangest laws, with one even terming "love jihad" a "creation of religious extremists for the purpose of dividing people."

Uttar Pradesh's new anti-conversion ordinance, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", reflects the philosophy of a khap panchayat, with the objective essentially being to subjugate women, former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah has said. The retired judge told NDTV that several of its provisions violate the fundamental right to practice reli...

An NDTV investigation into the case of a young Hindu woman heckled inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva activists because she had married a Muslim man has found multiple weak links in the case and actions against the couple.

BSP President Mayawati on Monday asked Uttar Pradesh's BJP government reconsider its new anti-religious conversion ordinance ostensibly aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad". The ordinance became applicable in the state last Saturday and a case has already been filed under the new law.

Amid furious nationwide debate over "love jihad" - the right-wing conspiracy theory that Muslim men enter into relationships with Hindu women to forcibly convert them - the UP government has passed an ordinance to check forced religious conversions

A first information report (FIR) against a Muslim man from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar - filed by the parents of his wife who converted to Islam last year to marry him - has been cancelled by the Allahabad High Court.

The issue of "love jihad" came up at a meeting between Rekha Sharma, the chief of the National Commission of Women and Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyaritoday in the backdrop of the recent row over a Tanishq advertisement. The Commission said Ms Sharma had highlighted the "rise" in ''love jihad'' cases in the state, reported news agency Pre...

A case was filed against the movie Kedarnath in a court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district. The petitioner has objected to the movie for reasons including its love scenes, alleged promotion of so-called love jihad and supposedly obscene dance sequences-- all against the backdrop of the 2013 flash floods in Uttarakhand.

More than a hundred workers of the BJP and other right-wing groups were booked for allegedly disrupting the marriage of a Hindu woman with a Muslim man in the Rajnagar area in Ghaziabad, police said today.

Hadiya, who grew up as Akhila Ashokan in Kerala, married a Muslim man Shafin Jahan last year. Hadiya will testify before the Supreme Court today after her family alleged that she forced to convert to Islam and marry. Here's a look at the timeline of Kerala 'love jihad' case.

NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi have won the International Press Institute (IPI) India Excellence in Journalism Award, 2021.

A young Muslim teen in west Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, 430 km from Lucknow, has spent over 20 days in jail after an incident last month where he and a 16-year-old Hindu girl, walking home from a friend's birthday event, were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station. The matter escalated to a case being filed under the state's controversial new...

Two teenagers walking home from a friend's birthday party in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of "love jihad" under a controversial new anti-conversion law.

Two people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district in separate cases under the state's new anti-conversion law, police said on Monday.

Two men, arrested under UP's anti-conversion law, freed. Cops couldn't produce evidence, say sources

Four former judges have criticised the new anti-conversion ordinance of Uttar Pradesh, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", calling it unconstitutional, against fundamental rights, and one of the strangest laws, with one even terming "love jihad" a "creation of religious extremists for the purpose of dividing people."

Uttar Pradesh's new anti-conversion ordinance, aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad", reflects the philosophy of a khap panchayat, with the objective essentially being to subjugate women, former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah has said. The retired judge told NDTV that several of its provisions violate the fundamental right to practice reli...

An NDTV investigation into the case of a young Hindu woman heckled inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva activists because she had married a Muslim man has found multiple weak links in the case and actions against the couple.

BSP President Mayawati on Monday asked Uttar Pradesh's BJP government reconsider its new anti-religious conversion ordinance ostensibly aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad". The ordinance became applicable in the state last Saturday and a case has already been filed under the new law.

Amid furious nationwide debate over "love jihad" - the right-wing conspiracy theory that Muslim men enter into relationships with Hindu women to forcibly convert them - the UP government has passed an ordinance to check forced religious conversions

A first information report (FIR) against a Muslim man from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar - filed by the parents of his wife who converted to Islam last year to marry him - has been cancelled by the Allahabad High Court.

The issue of "love jihad" came up at a meeting between Rekha Sharma, the chief of the National Commission of Women and Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyaritoday in the backdrop of the recent row over a Tanishq advertisement. The Commission said Ms Sharma had highlighted the "rise" in ''love jihad'' cases in the state, reported news agency Pre...

A case was filed against the movie Kedarnath in a court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district. The petitioner has objected to the movie for reasons including its love scenes, alleged promotion of so-called love jihad and supposedly obscene dance sequences-- all against the backdrop of the 2013 flash floods in Uttarakhand.

More than a hundred workers of the BJP and other right-wing groups were booked for allegedly disrupting the marriage of a Hindu woman with a Muslim man in the Rajnagar area in Ghaziabad, police said today.

Hadiya, who grew up as Akhila Ashokan in Kerala, married a Muslim man Shafin Jahan last year. Hadiya will testify before the Supreme Court today after her family alleged that she forced to convert to Islam and marry. Here's a look at the timeline of Kerala 'love jihad' case.