‘Love Jihad’ Behind Assam Triple Murder: Assam CM

Guwahati/Hyderabad, July 26 (Maxim News)  Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today claimed the recent triple murder in Golaghat was an outcome of ‘love-jihad‘ and said the chargesheet will be filed within 15 days to try the culprit in a fast track court. 

On Monday, a 25-year-old man killed his wife and her parents over some family issues and later surrendered before the police in the Golaghat district of Upper Assam.  ‘Love Jihad’ is a term often used by right-wing activists to allege a ploy by Muslim men to lure Hindu women into religious conversion through marriage. 

Sarma visited the family of the deceased and asserted that a thorough investigation would be carried out in the case, and the guilty would not be spared. ” The deceased family was Hindu and the accused belongs to the Muslim community.  He first introduced himself with a Hindu name on Facebook, the woman learned to use drugs when the couple had escaped to Kolkata, the Chief Minister said. 

Information has been received that the accused, a mechanical engineer, was a drug addict and involved with the trafficking of contraband substances, Sarma said.  “The woman was given injectable drugs under the influence of which she was impregnated. She was tortured when she went to live at the house of the accused and returned to her maternal home later, he claimed. 

“I am personally concerned about such a case in which religious identity is hidden on Facebook to influence a woman for marriage, and at last such a situation is created that she cannot return.  Even if she returns, society will not accept her, the CM said.  In such a situation, she ultimately converts her religion, sacrifices everything, and assimilates into a different life, he said. (Maxim News) 

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