updated: Feb 02 2021, 04:05 ist
Amid no sign of abatement of the farmers protest after more than two months, the Government reached out to farmers yet again after the presentation of the Union Budget, which Prime Minister Narendra said, has farmers at its heart . Discussion is the only solution. The government is open to discussions. Before the commencement of the Parliament session the Prime Minister said that the offer is still on the table. If any farmer has any question, the Agriculture Minister has never denied opportunities for talks, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during her post-budget briefing on Monday.
She also emphasised how Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has had several rounds of discussions with farmers.
My Boy Is Mentally Unstable Minor : Mother of Muslim Teen Accused of Love Jihad in UP
The poor family from Bijnor has been struggling to prove that the boy is only a minor, as they lack documents. He has been jailed for over a month, and his bail application stands rejected.
Representational image for love jihad. Photo: Reuters.
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Mohammad Sohaib has been in a district jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor for over a month for allegedly going to a birthday party with a Hindu girl.
On 22 January, more than a month after he was arrested on 14 December, Sohaib’s bail plea was rejected. “
A civil right activist holds placards during a demonstration condemning the passing of laws against Love Jihad by various state governments, Bangalore, India, December 1, 2020. [Manjunath Kiran/AFP]
On January 6, the Supreme Court of India declined to stay controversial laws recently enacted in several states to tackle “love jihad” – a baseless conspiracy theory accusing Muslim men of luring Hindu women into marriage with the aim of forcefully converting them to Islam.
Such laws are currently in place in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. Other states, such as Haryana and Karnataka, have also announced their intention to introduce similar legislation.
Zero Evidence Found, UP Police to Drop Charges Against Brothers Booked Under Love Jihad Law
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The police in Muzaffarnagar have given a clean chit to two men charged under Uttar Pradesh s anti-conversion law for allegedly trying to change the religion of a woman, an official said.
An FIR was earlier registered against brothers Nadeem and Salman for allegedly trying to unlawfully convert a woman to another religion but no evidence has been found against them, said Dharmendra Pal, SHO of Mansurpur police station where the case was filed.
The duo was charged under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, and Indian Penal Code sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation), he said.
Shakib, 18, has been charged under stringent sections of the law where bail is difficult
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A young Muslim teen in west Uttar Pradesh s Bijnor, 430 km from Lucknow, has spent over 20 days in jail after an incident last month where he and a 16-year-old Hindu girl, walking home from a friend s birthday event, were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station. The matter escalated to a case being filed under the state s controversial new anti-conversion law.
At her village in Bijnor, 50-year-old Sanjeeda, the mother of 18-year-old Shakib, who is now in jail awaiting a bail hearing this Friday - a widow with no fixed income - says she has just about managed money for a lawyer, as she fights back tears.