In the wake of threat from radical elements in their communally-sensitive home district Kasargode, a Muslim youth and his Hindu lover have got married in Kochi at the intervention of the high court.
The youth, a post-graduate and businessman, has been in love with the Hindu woman, a graduate for several years. To get married as per the special marriages act, both furnished mandatory notices at Badiyadukka sub-registrar office in Kasargode on January 24, this year.
The woman’s father moved a habeas corpus in the high court, saying his daughter was abducted. Acting upon a court direction, police tracked down the lovers and produced them before the court on January 27.
As the woman informed the court that she had decided to live with the Muslim youth at her will, the court allowed her to move to a hostel temporarily.
In the meantime, the lovers informed the court that they could not register their marriage at Badiyadukka due to the threat from religious fundamentalists. She was also threatened through social media. They pleaded the court’s intervention for conducting their marriage in the wake of the threat.
Considering the tense situation developed at their village Badiyadukka, the court allowed the lovers from different communities to conduct their register marriage in Kochi. Subsequently, their marriage was registered in Kochi on February 25.
The police informed the court that two cases have been registered in Kasargode and Ernakuam central police stations, in connection with threatening the youth and his lover. The court directed the police to conduct a probe into all incidents of threat they had received from the extremist elements.
Kasargode, neibhouring Karnataka’s Mangalore, have several incidents of lovers from different religious communities targeted by extremist elements. Years back, a Youth Congress leader belonging to Hindu community was brutally murdered on charges of loving a Muslim woman.
—courtesy indian express