Jammu Tawi: Tejinder Pal Singh (Aman), Chairman Sikh Youth Sewa Trust (SYST) has expressed serious concern over the forced marriage of two Sikh community girls namely Manmeet Kour and Dhanmeet Kour in Kashmir Valley.
In a statement issued to media here today, Singh said that it is really an irony that it was the Sikh community members who came to the forefront to ensure that the Muslim daughters held up at multiple destinations across the nation during the CAA protests reached home safely and today when two girls from our community have been forced to marry Muslim boys by some disgruntled persons of Muslim community, not a single Muslim leader has come forward to raise voice against the forcible conversion of Sikh girls’. He said that one of Sikh girl was forcibly married on gun point with elder person in the Kashmir Valley which seems to be an unfortunate.
Expressing shock over the rise in the number of girls getting forcibly converted and made to marry Muslim boys at gunpoint and other threats, he also appealed to the government to introduce a strong law to be implemented in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory on the pattern of law in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh that mandates permission of parents in case of inter-religion marriages so that these forced Nikahs of Sikh community girls in J&K especially in Kashmir Valley are stopped henceforth.
He said that the UT Administration must take immediate steps to recover the two aforementioned victim girls from the clutches of the culprits and hand these forcibly converted and married girls to their parents without any delay.
