Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar, on Sunday, said that his government is also considering legal provisions against ‘love jihad’ to ensure “the guilty cannot escape”, reported PTI. This comes a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that his government would bring a law against ‘love jihad’. 

The Haryana CM said the recent murder of a student in Faridabad’s Ballabhgarh is being linked to ‘love jihad’, a term used by right-wing activists to refer to the alleged campaign of Muslims forcing Hindu girls to convert in the guise of love.

Earlier in the day, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij tweeted the state government “is contemplating a law against love jihad”.

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Khattar said the Ballabhgarh incident needs to be strongly condemned and both the Centre and the state government are taking the love jihad issue very seriously.

He added that the central government and the state government are taking legal advice so that such incidents are not repeated. “Legal provisions are being contemplated so that the guilty cannot escape and no innocent person is punished,” said the Haryana CM.

A 21-year-old college student, Nikita, was shot dead in Ballabhgarh by a man last week. The victim’s family has alleged that the man was pressuring her to convert to Islam in order to marry him. The accused, Tauseef, has been arrested and is in judicial custody.