A Muslim man and his brother were arrested in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh, after he and a Hindu woman tried to register their marriage, NDTV reported on Sunday. The men were charged under the new anti-conversion law that targets “love jihad”, a conspiracy theory used by Hindutva groups who accuse Muslim men of using marriage as a lure to force Hindu women to convert to Islam.
The couple was handed over to the police by the members of Bajrang Dal, a right-wing group affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which is the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Some members of the outfit reportedly reached the marriage registration office in Kanth area of Moradabad on Friday, stopped the couple from going forward with the procedure and took them to a nearby police station.
A widely circulated video on social media shows the Bajrang Dal activists, with saffron scarves tied around their necks, questioning the woman in the presence of police…