By Mukul Dube
State governments and High Courts have taken action, and are
contemplating further action, against what is described as “alleged Love Jihad”.
Possibly to act against what is only alleged but not proven is to err on the side of wisdom.
However, do we have any assurance that, if this whole “Love Jihad” thing should turn out to be an engineered fraud, punishment will be meted out to those who manufactured it and to those who will have wasted the resources of the Indian State in fighting it?
Will there be an official repudiation of statements which have been made about the “national ramifications” of what is not so far proven not to be a load of bull? What will be done to those judges who ordered adult women to stay with their parents, an action which must be called unauthorised house arrest and the taking away of fundamental rights?