Leaked interfaith wedding ceremony card results in ‘love jihad’ protests, household pressured to cancel ceremony


New Delhi: Grand preparations for a marriage went to waste when ‘Love Jihad’ protestors acquired a maintain of a marriage card invitation to a union between a Hindu and a Muslim.

Just lately, members of a household in Nashik needed to name off a perform to solemnise their 28-year-old daughter’s wedding ceremony to a Muslim man as per Hindu rituals following protests by their neighborhood. The protesters described the wedding as a case of ‘love jihad’.

Based on media experiences, though the perform was cancelled, the relations determined that they’d proceed to face by their daughter’s alternative.

Based on them, there was no try at pressured conversion. And the wedding had already been registered in an area court docket.

Prasad Adgaonkar, a distinguished jeweller and the bride’s father, stated his daughter Rasika suffered from bodily incapacity and the household had confronted some issue to find a match for her. 

Just lately, she and Asif Khan, a former classmate, introduced their want to tie the knot. For the reason that two households knew one another for the previous few years, they agreed to the match.

In Might, Adgaonkar stated, the wedding was registered at a Nashik court docket within the presence of each the households. On the time, in addition they agreed to conduct the rituals on July 18 earlier than the girl left for her in-laws’ home.

The perform, the daddy stated, was to be held within the presence of shut family members at a Nashik lodge. However then, he stated, a duplicate of the invitation card acquired circulated in a number of WhatsApp teams, triggering protests, messages and calls, together with from “strangers”, for the perform to be cancelled.

On July 9, Adgaonkar stated, he was requested by neighborhood members to satisfy them. Throughout the assembly, the jeweller claimed he was “suggested” to not maintain the perform. “Lots of stress began coming from individuals of the neighborhood and others, and so it was determined to cancel the wedding perform,” one other member of the family stated, based on media experiences.

Subsequently, the household submitted a letter to a area people organisation that the ceremony had been referred to as off.

Sunil Mahalkar, president of Lad Suvarnakar Sanstha, Nashik, to whom the letter was addressed, stated: “We have now acquired a letter from the household and so they have knowledgeable us that the wedding has been cancelled.”

However on the identical time, they continue to be agency: no matter occurs, the younger couple won’t be pressured to separate.

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