Karnataka Congress Corporator, whose daughter was stabbed to death by her acquaintance inside BVB college campus in Hubballi, has said that she was murdered due to “love jihad”. Aggrieved Niranjan Hiremath’s statement comes even as the Siddaramaiah government indicated that no such attempt of forced religious conversion was involved in the case.
“If this is not Love Jihad, then what is?” Hiremath asked, adding that forced marital religious conversions have been spreading a lot.
“Incidents of this sort have been happening. I see various cases, and their cruelty is increasing. Why are youngsters going astray? Things have come to a point where I cannot hesitate to say this. Because I know the pain of losing a daughter. I have seen in various cases now, of parents losing children. I think this ‘Love Jihad’ is spreading a lot,” the Corporator said.
ABVP Gherao Karnataka Home Minister’s Residence
Protesting against the murder, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers gheraoed Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara’s residence in Bengaluru on Saturday. They were arrested and taken into police custody by the police officials stationed there.
The protest comes as FIR of the murder case revealed that the accused constantly approached Neha Hiremath to marry him, and had even approached her parents to get her married to him.
The complaint given by Geetha, Neha’s mother, also reveals that Neha’s father had spoken to accused Fayaz four months ago, asking him not to approach his daughter for marriage as she wants to study.
In her complaint, Neha’s mother also revealed that she had told her parents recently that Fayaz has threatened her of dire consequences if she didn’t accept his proposal.
What is Hubballi Murder Case?
Hiremath’s daughter Neha (23) was a first-year MCA student, who was killed by 23-year-old Fayaz, an MCA dropout. Police said that both of them were batchmates during their BCA course.
The entire incident was caught on CCTV camera. According to the police, Fayaz went inside the college campus with a knife and stabbed Neha five-six times. During the attack, he too sustained injuries and was shifted to the hospital along with the victim. At the hospital, Neha was declared brought dead.
“During interrogation, he (Fayaz) claimed that the two of them had been in a relationship and that she had suddenly started avoiding him. It needs to be corroborated and verified, but he was arrested immediately,” a senior police officer said. A case of murder has been registered, police said, adding that further investigation is underway.
Narrating about the incident, Neha’s father Hiremath said that his daughter had classes from 8 am. At around 4.30 pm, when she stepped out after completing her classes, this person approached towards her and stabbed her nearly six times inside the college campus and she died on the spot.
“He (the accused) was an old student and he had proposed my daughter but she rejected his proposal. She did not like him and she usually stayed away from all this…She refused him saying they both belonged to different caste and that she did not wish to have any relationship with him. Out of anger, he stabbed my daughter,” he told.
Reactions in the Case
Day after chief minister Siddaramaiah rejected accusations of ‘love jihad, and said murder happened due to “personal reasons”, Niranjan Hiremath replied: “The whole state and country witnessed what happened to my daughter. If they say that it is personal, what is personal in this? Are they my relatives?”
Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi, meanwhile, launched a scathing attacking attack on the Congress government in the state, saying that the ‘C’ in the party’s name stands for “corruption, criminality, and communal violence.”
Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad, on the other hand, blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of communalizing the situation.
“BJP is getting an opportunity to communalize the situation. The best they do is communalize the situation. Spread poison. It is a very gruesome act. Police have arrested the accused. Whatever is the fact, will come out in public. We demand for strictest punishment for the accused. The BJP is taking a political advantage. Law and order issues and everything will be taken care of. The government is capable enough of taking care of it,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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