MUMBAI: Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced a special investigation team (SIT) to make a detailed inquiry into alleged month-long delay by Palghar police in taking stringent action after Shraddha Walkar had made a written complaint about she beaten up and harassed by Aaftab Poonawallah, her live-in partner who murdered her in Delhi’s Chhatarpur and cut her body into pieces.
Replying to a calling attention motion raised by all party legislators deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis also announced that state was studying the laws in other states to enact its own to stop alleged 'love jihad' attempts citing a sudden spurt in such cases across the state. Pointing out that over 40 morchas were taken out recently demanding a stringent law against ‘love jihad’, Fadnavis said government had no opposition to interfaith marriages but it had observed that in such cases marriages were being ‘conspired’ eventually forcing women to stay in relationship under pressure and torture.
