The BJP refers to the arrest of a Bihar man for sex assaulting his fiancée as "love jihad."
On May 26, the survivor filed a lawsuit against the defendant, claiming that he sexually assaulted her for six years. The FIR says that the accused and the survivor got engaged in 2019.
Ankush Pandey
A man from Patna, Bihar, was taken into custody on suspicion of sexually assaulting his fiancée for six years. On May 26, the survivor presented an FIR to the Phulwarisharif police station in the Patna district claiming to have been sexually assaulted.
The survivor's FIR stated that the accused, identified as Atif, had sexually assaulted the survivor on a regular basis for six years. The survivor also said that Atif had said he would marry her, but he didn't.
The accused and the survivor shared a friend who gave Atif the complainant's mobile number in 2017. Atif would call her unendingly and the two engaged in a heartfelt connection, the survivor said, according to the FIR.
In 2019, they tied the knot in front of the survivor's family at a Patna banquet hall. But the event was not attended by Atif's family.
After their engagement, the survivor claimed, the Atif would sexually assault her every day.
She had needed to get hitched to the denounced for quite a while. However, according to the FIR, he continued to delay the process until May of this year, when he finally refused, claiming that his parents would not accept the marriage for religious reasons.
In addition, Atif declared their engagement null and void and stated that he would not marry her.
According to Shafir Alam, Phulwarisharif Station House Officer (SHO), the accused was detained in accordance with the FIR that was filed against him. He stated that the survivor had undergone a medical examination, and officers were awaiting the results.
BJP spokesperson Nikhil Anand referred to the sexual assault case as a case of "Love Jihad" in his response. According to Anand, Islamic institutions in India and other countries technically supported such selective predation of majority-community girls.
Right-wing activists often use the term "love jihad" to say that Muslim men are using marriage to get Hindu women to convert to Islam.
