Love Jihad

A Hindu girl in Karnataka's Hubballi was assaulted by her Muslim friend for trying to end their relationship after the Neha Hiremath murder case.

Hiremath stated that it is an elaborate conspiracy to target some bright girls of certain families and systematically stalk them, trying to trap them in love affairs, just as they showed in the movie ‘The Kerala Story’.

Retired IAS officer's wife stated that following the death of a girl named Neha in Karnataka, she is concerned about the safety of her only daughter.

Niranjan Hiremath added that the killer Fayaz, after getting rejected by Neha, had continued stalking her. Neha's every movement was followed and he had engaged a group of people to know all the details like the timings of coming to college, the gates she used to enter through, the classes she attended, and the places she visited.

“They were forcing her to convert. Since she didn’t agree to religious conversion, she was murdered,” Niranjan Hiremath, the Congress Councillor from Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC), said

On further interrogation, Sameer Alam confessed that he intended to take the minor girl with him to Nepal to sell her there. The modus operandi resembles the plot exposed in 'The Kerala Story' movie.

Hubballi-Dharawad police arrested two men identified as Sadiq Imam Saab Tadakoda and Adil for justifying Fayaz stabbing Neha to death in Hubballi

Congress leader Niranjan Hiremath, father Neha who was killed by Fayaz for rejecting his advances, voiced his discontent with the leaders of his party for negating the Love Jihad angle in the case

24-year-old Neha Hiremath was stabbed to death by Fayaz of the same college on the campus in Hubballi on Thursday

The Police have filed an FIR under sections 376 (rape), 376 (2)(n), 377, 420, 323, 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Further investigations in the case are underway.