Kerala HC asks govt to frame laws to stop ‘love jihad’
Source: ET 10 Dec 2009, 0510 hrs IST, ET Bureau KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday found indications of ‘forceful’ religious conversions under the garb of ‘love’ in the state, and asked the government to consider enacting a law to prohibit such ‘deceptive’ acts. “Under the pretext of love, there cannot be any compulsive, deceptive conversion,” the court said. Justice KT Sankaran of the Kerala High Court made this observation while dismissing the anticipatory bail applications moved by two people accused of participating in activities of ‘love jihad’, allegedly involving converting girls from other religions to Islam after enticing them to marry Muslim boys. After perusing the case diary in ‘love jihad’ cases, justice Sankaran concluded that there were indications of forceful religious conversions. From some of the police reports, it was clear there was a ‘concerted’ effort to convert girls of a particular religion to another with the “blessings of