Minister Om Prakash Saklecha front on to the slogans of ‘murdabad’ by workers of the VHP, Bajrang Dal and other groups in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur yesterday. The protesters made to wait over an hour outside the circuit house, where they had assembled to demand police action in an alleged case of ‘love jihad’.
Some of the volunteers of the protest had gone to meet SP Sachin Sharma to submit a memorandum demanding police action in the matter of one Neelam Ahirwar. Neelam Ahirwar is a suspected victim of ‘love jihad’ is alleged to murdered by her husband Tabbu Khan. The police, however, say the man is a Hindu.
The protesters reached the circuit house after learning that the SP was there. Saklecha, who was recently announced as minister-in-charge of Chhtarpur, was visiting the district at the time.
The victim’s father Kishori Lal Ahirwar said that his daughter eloped with Tabbu, also known as Talib Khan, in 2015. She reportedly called Ahirwar on July 1 and said that Tabbu and his family were trying to kill her and had forcibly converted her. “I went to meet Talib Khan’s family but they did not allow me to see my daughter. The next day they all went missing,” said Ahirwar.
Kishori Lal also alleged that Talib’s neighbours said the family left with a woman covered in a sheet. “I think they have killed my daughter but the police are not doing anything about it,” alleged Ahirwar.
He also appealed to Satendra Singh, prant seh-sanjoy of Chhatarpur, said, “The minister was having lunch and our workers were standing in the sun while police had failed to act. The police are now peddling a different story. We will protest tomorrow with evidence that Neelam was married as per Muslim law.”
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