Acting on complaint about ‘love jihad’, UP Police stops wedding of Muslim couple
PTI
The man and the woman turned out to be both Muslims and adults.
The man told a newspaper later that he was thrashed with a leather belt at the station, an allegation denied by the police.
Kushinagar Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Singh said someone from Gurnia village had informed them on Tuesday that a couple was getting “quietly” married there, and suspected it to be a case of “love jihad.”
The term is used by right-wing activists to refer to marriages allegedly performed for the sake of religious conversion.