In another case of moral policing in Mangaluru, members of the Hindutva group Bajrang Dal reportedly attacked two Muslim men who were part of an interfaith group late at night in the city on Saturday, December 10. The accused allegedly assaulted two Muslim men as they were moving in the Kottara area along with two Hindu women, who were looking for an eatery. According to the police, one of the women in the interfaith group is a minor.
Police officials said members of the Hindutva group questioned the interfaith quartet for moving around in the city late at night on December 10. They claimed that this was a case of ‘love jihad’. ‘Love jihad’ is a bogey term used by right-wing organisations to propagate the theory that Muslim men ‘trap’ and marry Hindu women with malafide intentions.The union government had earlier told the Lok Sabha in 2019 that no “case of ‘love jihad’ had been reported by any of the central agencies”.
As per Mangaluru police, the incident had taken place in the limits of Urwa police station in the city, however, no complaint was lodged with the police and no arrests have been made in the case yet.
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