Edited By: Nitya Thirumalai
Last Updated: January 05, 2023, 19:08 IST
According to the VHP, a 20-member crew comprising docs, counsellors and different volunteers has been made a part of the helpline service. (Representational picture: AFP)
Karnataka’s Vishwa Hindu Parishad Dakshina Prantha joint secretary Sharan Pumpwell says the newly launched ‘love jihad’ helpline has acquired 200 calls and round 15 circumstances have been referred to the outfit
“Let not another innocent life like Tunisha Sharma or Shraddha Walker be snuffed out due to love jihad!”
These had been the phrases of Karnataka’s Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Dakshina Prantha joint secretary Sharan Pumpwell, explaining why the outfit determined to launch a helpline in opposition to ‘love jihad’.
This ‘love jihad helpline’ has been launched in Mangaluru and is tasked with aiding ladies who could have “fallen prey to love” and are actually victims of forceful non secular conversions. According to Pumpwell, the primary goal is to supply counselling, and authorized and medical help to ladies who’ve turn into “victims of love jihad”.
Quoting the instance of Deepthi Marla from Kodagu who was forcibly transformed in 2022 and later charged by the NIA for allegedly operating a terrorist community to recruit Muslim youths to the ISIS, Pumpwell stated had she been recognized earlier she might have been rescued from the “clutches of Islamic converts”.
“We have received more than 200 calls and 15 cases have been referred to us since we launched from across the state even though the aim was first to unveil only the Dakshin Kannada region. We have been handling each case carefully to ensure that the victim gets justice,” Pumpwell instructed News18.
According to the VHP, a 20-member crew comprising docs, counsellors and different volunteers has been made a part of this helpline service. They declare that the rise in “loved jihad” circumstances or pressured conversions within the title of faith, particularly of girls and boys from the area, pressured them to take motion.
The transfer to battle aggressively in opposition to ‘love jihad’ was additionally endorsed by BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel who lately stated that the folks of Karnataka ought to prioritise “love jihad’ over concerns like “road, gutter, drain, and other small issues… If the love jihad issue concerns your children’s lives, it has to be stopped and we need the BJP for this,” he stated on the launch of the ‘Booth Vijay Abhiyaan’, a technique deliberate by the occasion to organize and re-energise the cadre for the forthcoming elections within the state.
VHP leaders who’ve been manning the traces because the launch of the helpline say calls which have been acquired have been from ladies and their households who concern for his or her lives as they’re being pressured to transform to Islam.
In a three-pronged technique, Pumpwell stated that after they obtain a grievance, their counselling crew will get into motion and begins working intently with the affected household. They inform the involved authorities and start giving them authorized assist as effectively.
“There are many who fear complaining to the police as they may have been threatened. We provide them with the required assistance and legal help,” he added.
“All information will be kept confidential and we appeal to the victims of love jihad to come forward without fear. We are just a call away,” Pumpwell stated.
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