Tunisha Sharma case should be probed from ‘love jihad’ angle, says BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New
Delhi,
Dec
28:
Bharatiya
Janta
Party
MLA
from
Maharashtra
Atul
Bhatkhalkar
on
Wednesday
demanded
that
a
probe
be
conducted
from
‘love
jihad’
angle
into
the
case
of
actor
Tunisha
Sharma’s
death,
in
which
her
co-star
Sheezan
Khan
has
been
arrested.

The
demand
comes
days
after
Maharashtra
minister
and
BJP
leader
Girish
Mahajan
alleged
the
death
of
Sharma
was
a
matter
of
‘love
jihad’ and
that
the
state
was
planning
to
bring
a
strict
law
to
curb
such
incidents.

“The
police
should
probe
the
matter
from
the
angle
of
love
jihad,” Bhatkhalkar
told
PTI
in
the
Vidhan
Bhavan
complex
in
Nagpur
where
the
winter
session
of
the
state
legislature
is
currently
underway.
”Love
jihad”
is
a
term
often
used
by
right-wing
activists
to
allege
a
ploy
by
Muslim
men
to
lure
Hindu
women
into
religious
conversion
through
marriage.

TV
actress
Tunisha
Sharma’s
last
rites
performed
in
Mumbai;
accused’s
mother,
sister
attend
funeral

20-year-old
Tunisha
Sharma,
who
acted
in
the
show
‘Ali
Baba:
Dastaan-E-Kabul’,
was
found
dead
on
the
sets
of
a
television
show
following
which
a
case
of
abetment
to
suicide
was
lodged.
The
case
of
abetment
was
registered
against
Sheezan.

Khan
(27)
was
arrested
on
Sunday
on
the
charge
of
abetting
her
suicide.
Both
were
in
a
relationship.
They
broke
up
15
days
before
Tunisha
Sharma’s
death
last
week.

Sharma’s
mother
on
Monday
alleged
Khan
had
cheated
and
‘used’ her
daughter
for
three
to
four
months.

The
deceased
actor
had
featured
in
the
TV
show
‘Bharat
Ka
Veer
Putra
Maharana
Pratap’
and
films
like
‘Fitoor’
and
‘Baar
Baar
Dekho’.

Maharashtra
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Devendra
Fadnavis
had
last
week
said
the
government
would
study
laws
on
”love
jihad”
framed
by
other
states
and
take
an
appropriate
decision.

Broke
up
with
Tunisha
Sharma
after
Shraddha
Walkar
murder
case,
Sheezan
Khan
tells
police

Love
Jihad
cases
are
those
where
a
Muslim
boy
traps
a
Hindu
girl
into
having
a
relationship
and
then
insisting
that
she
convert
to
Islam.
The
topic
has
been
a
hot
one
and
several
such
cases
including
the
Shraddha
Walkar
murder
have
been
termed
as
Love
Jihad.
The
cases
of
Love
Jihad
were
reported
in
large
numbers
in
Kerala.
It
was
found
in
the
Islamic
State
case
that
several
Hindu
and
Christian
girls
had
converted
to
Islam
before
leaving
for
Afghanistan
to
join
the
Islamic
State.