Chase episode 8: Love Jihad – Faisla On The Spot

About 70 kilometres north of Muzaffarnagar lies the town of Saharanpur. It’s home to, among other people, Junior Bhagat Singh, aka Vijaykant Chauhan. He’s the man who claims to have first unearthed the concept of love jihad, and he’s committed to fighting it. (He’s also a gau rakshak, just FYI.)

But what is this love jihad? Allegedly, Muslim boys and men target young girls belonging to non-Muslim (read: Hindu) communities and feign love for them, with the express purpose of converting them to Islam.

Chauhan claims to have saved hundreds of Hindu women from love jihadis, but in the same breath, he also claims, and very proudly so, to have converted hundreds of Muslim women ‘back into’ Hinduism. Sounds confusing? Watch the latest episode of Chase, a collaboration between ScoopWhoop and Newslaundry, in which director and reporter Samdish Bhatia encounters something bigger and even more absurd than Chauhan’s larger-than-life personality.