“How journalists and ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’ conspiracy theorists falsely communalised a suicide case involving a Muslim couple”, Swarajyamag, June 23, 2023:
“A woman’s body was found from her rented accommodation in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh late evening on 19 June.
Preliminary information revealed that the woman, a Muslim named Muskan, had eloped and married a Hindu man named Deepak a few years ago.
A section of social media users promptly shared the news of her death as a case of ‘bhagwa love trap’, insinuating that the man had trapped the woman into a relationship for her conversion to Hinduism and then killed her.
Police, however, have found that the woman had separated from Deepak a year ago, and had been living with a man named Mohammed Faizan since then…..”
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