Guwahati:
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday urged the police to develop an ordinary working Process (SOP) for probing circumstances of ‘love-jihad’ within the state.
The basis reason for ‘love jihad’ is forceful non secular conversions, Mr Sarma claimed in his handle to the superintendents of police at a conference in Bongaigaon.
“In addition to, an act might be applied quickly within the state via which the marriageable age might be legally mounted for all communities, a number of marriages might be stopped and extra legislative steps might be taken in order that when arrests are made for violating the norms, the accused don’t get bail,” Mr Sarma mentioned.
The chief minister has been claiming that the triple homicide case in Golaghat the place a 25-year previous Muslim man killed his Hindu spouse and her dad and mom on Monday was a case of ‘love jihad’, a time period utilized by right-wing teams to allege that Muslim males lure Hindu girls to transform via marriage.
He additionally claimed there have been many tragic incidents of suicide by women who’ve been victims of ‘love jihad’.
Mr Sarma had earlier claimed on Thursday that there might be peace within the nation if Hindu and Muslim males marry girls of their respective communities. The chief minister advised the conference that one other operation to fight baby marriages within the state might be launched in September and legislative backing might be given to make sure prosecution of the accused held for polygamy and baby marriages.
Mr Sarma urged all SPs of the state to be ready for extra arrests in September as there might be one other spherical of motion towards baby marriage then.
”Every time a toddler marriage involves our discover we must prosecute the accused underneath POCSO as it’s a secular Act and doesn’t take care of any faith,” he mentioned. The POCSO Act applies equally to all residents of all religions who commit sexual offences towards youngsters.
”There are some classic acts which have come to our discover. We’ll repeal them because it is available in the way in which of taking motion towards baby marriage,” he mentioned. Mr Sarma mentioned crime towards girls in Assam has drastically come all the way down to 14,030 circumstances in 2022 as towards 29,046 circumstances in 2021, which is far beneath the annual common of 27,240 circumstances between 2017-21. Crimes towards youngsters within the state have additionally come all the way down to 4,084 as towards 5,282 in earlier years.
Excessive profile circumstances have to be tried in particular courts, particular public prosecutors have to be engaged and cost sheets have to be filed throughout the stipulated interval to function a deterrent in future, he added.
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