Killing over interfaith marriages is a topic of concern as there are many cases related to it. In one such related incident a 24-year-old Hindu youth was killed by his Muslim wife’s family members and others over their interfaith marriage in Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat, said Police on August 5.
On August 3 the incident occurred in Shedhakhai village. The deceased identified as Yagnik Dudhrejiya was attacked with axes, iron rods and sticks by the accused, all related to the Muslim wife of the deceased, identified as Adam Musa Detha (42), Hothi alias Dado Kasam Detha (27), Juma Musa Detha (40), Osman Musa Detha (35), Sajid Isha Detha (26), and Salim Hussain Detha (32) and a minor.
The police said, ‘Dhudhrejiya was rushed to a government hospital in Jamnagar city, where he died late in the evening’. Superintendent of Police (SP) Nitesh Pandey said, ‘The victim, who belonged to the Sadhu caste, had married a Muslim woman. The accused, all Muslims, were involved in the murder due to the interfaith marriage’.
A case was registered based on a complaint by the victim’s mother at Bhanvad police station against the accused. They were booked under sections 103(2) (murder committed by a group of five or more persons on the grounds of race, caste, community or sex), 189(2) (unlawful assembly), 189(4) (unlawful assembly of members armed with deadly weapons), 191(2) (rioting), 191(3) (rioting with deadly weapons) and 190 (common intent of members of an unlawful assembly in committing a crime).
In October 2023, a 50-year-old man named Gora Raeesuddin Khan was found guilty of killing his own daughter and her son-in-law due to their interfaith marriage.
Along with his son and his son’s friend Khan plotted the murder. According to the media reports, locals alerted the Govandi police about an unknown body found inside a well in the Mankhurd area and as per the postmortem’s report, the man’s cause of death was a slit neck from a sharp object. The police registered a case and started their investigation. Later the man was identified as Karan Ramesh Chandra, 22.
In one similar case, Santosh Kumar, a resident of Bahuar village in the Vaishali district of Bihar, had married 20-year-old Mosrat Khatun in Delhi. Just ten days prior upon returning to his village his lifeless body was discovered hanging from a tree in the fields on January 15.
The killing of Hindus over interfaith relationships has increased in recent years and it needs to be under control. The mass killing of innocents needs to be stopped.
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