Lovee Jihaad

Pranshi Ladha, INN/ Madhya Pradesh
@PranshiLadha, @Infodeaofficial

An assertion to a judge by a 18-year-elderly person at the focal point of a strict transformation column in Kashmir unveils new insights concerning her change, her relationship with 29-year-old Shahid Nazir Bhat and her relationship with her family. As per the assertion, recorded on 26 June and got to by The Caravan, the 18-year-old changed over from Sikhism to Islam in 2020, at 16 years old or 17. She has been in a five-year relationship with Bhat, since she was 13 years of age. Bhat affirmed the relationship however denied having sexual relations with her when she was a minor. The assertion is quiet on this perspective, so the subtleties stay unsure. In any case, the 18-year-old expresses that she tries to “continue their wedding ties and stay together” with Bhat. She additionally blames her family for beating, tormenting and taking steps to kill her. Not long after being gotten back to her family, the 18-year-old had been offered to a Sikh man—her assertion recommends that she was constrained into it against her desires.

The 18-year-old wedded Bhat on 5 June 2021, their nikah archives showed. Bhat was thus captured on a protest recorded by the 18-year-old’s dad, dated 21 June, blaming him for hijacking her. The lady’s assertion, be that as it may, considered it a “bogus and created” case and looked for his delivery from guardianship. She expressed she disappeared with Bhat on “her own choice.” Interestingly, the 18-year-elderly person raised grave claims against her family in her assertion. “The deponent has been on numerous occasions beaten and tormented by her family who are against her inversion and marriage,” the 18-year-old said. “Deponent would not like to go to her parental home since she is in danger of being killed by her family and the Sikh Community (Local).”

Bhat was delivered from prison on 3 July and addressed us available to come in to work on 8 July. He certified a large portion of the affirmations by the 18-year-old in the 164 proclamation. He denied charges that he had captured the 18-year-old at gunpoint or persuasively changed over her. “Those things are lies,” he said. “She was extremely eager to be a Muslim and wanted to have a nikah with me.”

The 18-year-old’s change turned into a subject of political discussion on 27 June, after Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the Shiromani Akali Dal pioneer who heads the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, drove a dissent in Srinagar about the constrained transformation of Kashmiri Sikh ladies. Sirsa guaranteed that on 26 June, the 18-year-old and another Kashmiri Sikh lady had been “grabbed at gunpoint and had a nikah, that too with a 50-year-elderly person.” He called this “love jihad”— a traditional fear inspired notion that claims Muslim men bait ladies from different religions into union with convert their religion. “For what reason are these maulanas and muftis quiet?” Sirsa said. “Didn’t they have any disgrace while perusing a nikah like this? Little youngsters with senior men who have ten-ten kids?” A senior cop with information on the subtleties of the 18-year-old’s case disclosed to us that the case that she was captured at gunpoint was “crazy.” The official said, “Individuals attempt to get political mileage, and attempt to give it an alternate tone.”