The Maharashtra authorities has shaped a committee to check and accumulate data on intercaste and interfaith marriages. The 12-member committee has been named as Intercaste/Interfaith Marriage-Circle of relatives Coordination Committee. Headed through the state’s Girls and Kid Building Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the committee will contain authorities officers together with other people from the non-government sector.
This committee will accumulate and analyse details about {couples} in such marriages, in addition to the ladies’s maternal households, to resolve if they’re estranged. The panel will touch the ladies’s households to inquire concerning the standing of the wedding and to supply to suggest if the interfaith marriage was once performed towards their will. As well as, the committee will accumulate data on marriages carried out in spiritual puts and confirm whether or not such marriages have been registered.
The committee additionally intends to release a platform to deal with problems that stand up from such marriages.
It’s also value noting that the Maharashtra authorities is thinking about introducing law within the upcoming wintry weather consultation of the state meeting to ban forcible spiritual conversions and ‘Love Jihad’ within the state. Reportedly, the regulation can be modeled after the UP authorities, and the ones discovered to blame can be jailed for 3-5 years. If the sufferer is a minor or belongs to a scheduled caste, the punishment can be harsher.
In a press briefing, BJP MLA and Maharashtra’s Girls and Kid Building minister stated that this initiative intends to stop a repeat of the Shraddha Walkar homicide case during which the sufferer Shraddha was once strangulated and chopped into 35 items through her Muslim live-in spouse Aftab Amin Poonawala.
“It’s scary that Shraddha Walkar’s circle of relatives was once unaware she died six months in the past… We don’t need some other Shraddha Walkar, which is why the committee is being shaped to make sure that ladies in such marriages aren’t separated from their households,” Minister Lodha stated.