Maha govt panel set up to collect data on inter-faith couples, Opposition slams ‘retrograde’ move- The New Indian Express

By On-line Desk

MUMBAI: In a disturbing growth, the Maharashtra authorities has arrange a committee to collect data on inter-faith and inter-caste marriage {couples} and the maternal households of the ladies concerned if they’re estranged. The panel could have 13 members from authorities and non-government fields to check insurance policies concerning associated welfare schemes and legal guidelines.

The opposition Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) has condemned the “retrograde” step, stating that the Eknath Shinde authorities had no proper to spy on the private lives of individuals. Senior NCP chief and former state minister Jitendra Awhad tweeted, “What’s this garbage of committee to test inter-caste/faith marriages? Who’s govt to spy on who marries whom? In liberal Maharashtra this a retrograde, nauseating step. Which manner is progressive Maharashtra heading in direction of. Avoid folks’s personal life.”

A Authorities Decision (GR) issued on Tuesday by the state’s Girls and Youngster Improvement Division stated the “Intercaste/Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee (state degree)” will likely be headed by Lodha.

They may maintain common conferences with district officers and accumulate data on registered and unregistered inter-faith and inter-caste marriages together with elopement, it stated.

The committee will monitor district-level initiatives for girls concerned in such marriages who could also be estranged from their households, in order that help will be offered if needed, it stated. Girls and their households may use the platform to avail of counselling and resolve points.

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State minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha who’s heading the committee head claimed it was “an try to make sure that the Shraddha Walkar case doesn’t occur once more.”

“The truth that Walkar’s household was not conscious that she had died six months in the past is frightening… the committee is being arrange to make sure ladies in such marriages should not away from their households,” he stated.

Walkar was murdered allegedly by her accomplice Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi in Might this 12 months who had strangled and minimize her physique into 35 items which he saved in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli, earlier than dumping them throughout the town over a number of days.

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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had not too long ago stated that his authorities would research legal guidelines on freedom of faith enacted by different states, however had not but selected introducing the same regulation within the western state.

“Love jihad”, utilized by right-wing activists, alleges a ‘ploy’ by Muslim males to lure Hindu ladies into conversion by way of marriage.

(With PTI inputs)

<br /> MUMBAI: In a disturbing growth, the Maharashtra authorities has arrange a committee to collect data on inter-faith and inter-caste marriage {couples} and the maternal households of the ladies concerned if they’re estranged. The panel could have 13 members from authorities and non-government fields to check insurance policies concerning associated welfare schemes and legal guidelines.</p> <p>The opposition Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) has condemned the “retrograde” step, stating that the Eknath Shinde authorities had no proper to spy on the private lives of individuals. Senior NCP chief and former state minister Jitendra Awhad tweeted, “What’s this garbage of committee to test inter-caste/faith marriages? Who’s govt to spy on who marries whom? In liberal Maharashtra this a retrograde, nauseating step. Which manner is progressive Maharashtra heading in direction of. Avoid folks’s personal life.”</p> <p>A Authorities Decision (GR) issued on Tuesday by the state’s Girls and Youngster Improvement Division stated the “Intercaste/Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee (state degree)” will likely be headed by Lodha.</p> <p>They may maintain common conferences with district officers and accumulate data on registered and unregistered inter-faith and inter-caste marriages together with elopement, it stated.</p> <p>The committee will monitor district-level initiatives for girls concerned in such marriages who could also be estranged from their households, in order that help will be offered if needed, it stated. Girls and their households may use the platform to avail of counselling and resolve points.</p> <p>ALSO READ | Anti-conversion regulation: MP govt to maneuver SC towards interim aid from motion given to interfaith {couples}</p> <p>State minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha who’s heading the committee head claimed it was “an try to make sure that the Shraddha Walkar case doesn’t occur once more.”</p> <p>“The truth that Walkar’s household was not conscious that she had died six months in the past is frightening… the committee is being arrange to make sure ladies in such marriages should not away from their households,” he stated.</p> <p>Walkar was murdered allegedly by her accomplice Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi in Might this 12 months who had strangled and minimize her physique into 35 items which he saved in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli, earlier than dumping them throughout the town over a number of days.</p> <p>READ HERE | Anti-conversion legal guidelines, tedious Particular Marriage Act damage interfaith unions</p> <p>Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had not too long ago stated that his authorities would research legal guidelines on freedom of faith enacted by different states, however had not but selected introducing the same regulation within the western state.</p> <p>“Love jihad”, utilized by right-wing activists, alleges a ‘ploy’ by Muslim males to lure Hindu ladies into conversion by way of marriage.</p> <p>(With PTI inputs)<br />