On 2nd September, Nilgiris Police issued a statement clarifying that Ashika Parveen, a 22-year-old woman who was found dead on 23rd June 2024, was Muslim by birth. The clarification followed reports in local media suggesting it was a case of Love Jihad.
Reportedly, when Parveen, who was married to 30-year-old J Imran Khan died, her in-laws informed her family that she had suffered a seizure and later died in the hospital. However, a chemical analysis report revealed that she died of cyanide poisoning, turning the case into a murder investigation. When police questioned Parveen’s husband and mother-in-law, they confessed to poisoning her.
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In a statement, police said, “On August 20, the chemical analysis report was received and it stated that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. Based on the report, the deceased’s husband and mother-in-law were questioned, and they confessed that they poisoned her with cyanide.”
Initially, police suspected that the murder was due to dowry demands that Parveen was unable to fulfil. However, later in the investigation, police discovered that her mother-in-law, 47-year-old J Yasmin, was having an affair with a 56-year-old named N Khaleef. Imran’s family and Khaleef conspired to kill Parveen to prevent her from revealing Yasmin’s affair to others.
Following the revelation, some reports and social media posts claimed that Parveen was a Hindu who had converted to Islam to marry Imran, suggesting it was a case of Love Jihad. Police issued a warning against spreading rumours, stating, “It is learnt that some miscreants are spreading false news that the deceased Ashika Parveen is a Hindu by religion and by ‘love jihad,’ she was converted… It is clarified that the deceased Ashika Parveen is a Muslim by birth and the murder was due to a family issue. Severe legal action would be taken against those who spread false news.”
The Hindu called Love Jihad a ‘right-wing conspiracy’ basing on one case
Leftist media portal The Hindu used this case as an opportunity to whitewash the crimes of Islamists who lure Hindu women by hiding their identity and later harm, rape, assault, and even kill them. In its report, The Hindu defined Love Jihad as “a conspiracy theory spread by right-wing elements to target members of the minority Muslim community”.
It is a habit of left-liberal media like The Hindu to whitewash crimes committed by the Muslim community. The Hindu conveniently ignored the fact that cases of Love Jihad are regularly reported and well-documented.
OpIndia has reported and documented hundreds of cases of Love Jihad over the years. In the most recent case, a Hindu girl filed a complaint in the Bisauli Police Station area of Badaun against one Sohail who was pressuring her to convert to Islam and do Nikah. The accused forced-fed her meat and was pressuring her to offer namaz. When she refused to comply, Sohail and his family members brutally assaulted her.
Another case was reported in Baghpat where a man identified as Adil was accused of trapping a Hindu woman in a romantic relationship under all pretences, coercing her into religious conversion, and subjecting her to prolonged sexual abuse. The victim woman, a resident of a village in the Gandhinagar police station area of Baghpat, said that she came into contact with an individual using the name Aman on Instagram. However, the man later turned out to be Adil from Alipur in Amroha, who had created a fake Instagram ID under the name Aman. This deceit was the starting point for a series of exploitative actions by Adil.
In Kerala, the systematic targeting of non-Muslim women, their brainwashing and eventual conversion to Islam after wedding to a Muslim man, and recruitment for terrorist activities have been under investigation by NIA. Many Christian organisations too have been speaking up about the issue.
Though the cases of conversion and terror recruitment have been going on for years, it made headlines in 2016, when it was discovered that 4 ISIS brides locked in an Afghanistan prison were all from Kerala and 3 of them were non-Muslim girls targeted, converted and brainwashed to become wives of ISIS terrorists in an organized manner.
