Bengaluru: As protests rage in Karnataka over a Hindu lady having been stabbed to loss of life by a Muslim man, with accusations of ‘love jihad’ fanning the flames, the mom of the accused has stated he was in a romantic relationship with the girl for a couple of yr — making an attempt to dispel allegations that she was murdered for rejecting his advances.
Mumtaz, mom of 23-year-old school dropout and now homicide accused, Fayaz Khondunaik, instructed the media Saturday that her son was in a romantic relationship with Neha Hiremath, daughter of Congress’s Hubballi Dharwad Municipal Company (HDMC) corporator Niranjan Hiremath. The 23-year-old first yr MCA pupil was stabbed to loss of life Thursday by Fayaz at Hubbali’s BVB Faculty.
“Both of them were in love, I knew about it a year ago,” Mumtaz stated. She claimed it was Neha who first approached Fayaz as a result of he ‘used to do well at bodybuilding competitions’.
“He would come home and tell me he would often be approached by girls… he mentioned a girl named Neha,” she stated. Mumtaz maintained that her son ought to face the legislation.
The incident sparked protests throughout the state, with a number of Hindutva outfits and the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) terming it as a case of ‘love jihad’. The BJP additionally cited the incident to nook the Congress authorities within the state over its dealing with of legislation and order.
In the meantime, Neha’s father Niranjan Hiremath has alleged that she was killed as a result of she had rejected Fayaz’s advances. He reacted sharply to the general public apology by Fayaz’s mom, saying that there isn’t any level asking for forgiveness now.
Mumtaz additionally claimed that her son was affected by melancholy since dropping out of faculty, to which Hiremath responded: “Had they (the parents) told us or made us aware of Fayaz’s mental state, we could have taken precautions and kept our daughter safe. How appropriate is it now to ask for forgiveness?”
Polling in half of Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha seats is about to happen on 26 April, whereas the remaining 14 seats will go to the polls within the third part (7 Could). In opposition to this backdrop, a number of BJP leaders known as the incident a results of Congress’s ‘appeasement politics’.
Pralhad Joshi, Union Minister and BJP candidate from Hubballi-Dharwad, accused the Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities of making an attempt to defend such actions.
“The way in which this government is behaving… when Pakistan Zindabad slogan was raised in the Vidhana Soudha, how did they react? And, how did they act when Hanuman Chalisa was pronounced (played) in Bengaluru? What did they call terrorists in Rameshwaram Cafe? It appears that the government is taking things casually,” Joshi instructed media Saturday.
He alleged that the Congress authorities within the state “tried to support the culprits, protect the accused because it is their vote bank”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, too, made a reference to the incident whereas addressing a public assembly in Bengaluru Saturday. “The Congress, the kind of thinking it is promoting, that is very dangerous. Here, there are attacks on our daughters, bombs are exploding in our markets, there are attacks for listening to bhajans. These are not ordinary incidents.”
(Edited by Mannat Chugh)
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