‘Influenced by politics’: Why a Muslim man’s conviction for ‘love jihad’ is bad in law

“It is deeply troubling that a court can impose a life sentence – the maximum permissible punishment – in a case of rape, especially when the complainant has retracted her statement against the accused,” said Naveed Mehmood Ahmad, Senior Resident Fellow and the Crime and Punishment Team Lead at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a legal think tank. This article was published in Scroll.in on October 7, 2024.