Indian police ask interfaith couples: Is it love or terror?NEW DELHI/KOCHI, India (Reuters) - India s Supreme Court started hearing a case on Monday that prosecutors say shows how Islamic State sympathizers are using   Love Jihad    marrying Hindu women and converting them to Islam   to win recruits and spread their message. Over the past 28 months, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has picked up dozens of interfaith couples in the southern state of Kerala to question them about their marriages. The women - all Hindus who married Muslims   were asked  extremely personal  questions during the interrogations, two police officers from the agency said:  Did you sleep with your husband before getting married? Did he suggest you visit Islamic shrines before marriage? Did he blackmail you before you converted to Islam?   They were looking for cases of  Love Jihad , a term publicized by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other hardline Hindu groups soon after they helped propel Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in 2014. It refers to what these groups say is an Islamist campaign to convert Hindu women through seduction and marriage. Police investigations at the time found no evidence of any organised strategy, and the claim was widely ridiculed. But since then, the NIA began focusing on Kerala - a state along the Arabian Sea with strong economic links to the Middle East.  It investigated 89 cases of  Love Jihad  and found nine to be alliances planned by people linked to the Islamic State, two  NIA sources said, requesting anonymity because the investigation is going on. The NIA will present evidence in the nine cases to the Supreme Court.  The agency declined to disclose its evidence. But in two of the cases it was examining money sent from an Islamic school in Iraq to the women s bank accounts, and in another case a woman and her husband had shared IS videos among people in their Kerala village, the sources said. Opposition parties say the investigation shows the government is allowing the RSS and others to use the state apparatus to further an agenda of establishing Hindu dominance in India, where 13 percent of the population is Muslim. M.B Rajesh, a federal lawmaker and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which rules Kerala, said the NIA and the RSS were trying to prove that marriages between Hindus and Muslims  are forced unions .   The NIA s probe is creating religious fault lines to help Modi s party win (Kerala s) state elections, but we will defeat them.   J. Nandakumar, an RSS leader who oversees the group s activities in the state, said the NIA investigation vindicated the Hindu right s campaign against religious conversions.   Their first step is to convert Hindu boys and girls, hypnotise them and prepare them for jihad,  he said. The RSS, which founded the first iteration of Modi s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party six decades ago, believes India is fundamentally a Hindu nation.  Since Modi s election in May 2014, the RSS has expanded its membership and influence across India and either it or its affiliates now run key ministries, such as the home ministry, which supervises the NIA, and the finance ministry. Muslims   who account for 172 million of India s 1.32 billion citizens - have been under increasing pressure from the Hindu right. Muslims have been lynched for killing cows - considered sacred in Hinduism - and some of their slaughter houses forced to shut down.  Neither Modi s office nor the NIA would comment because the issue is before the Supreme Court. One of the Muslim men, whose marriage to a Hindu woman was annulled by Kerala s High Court, has appealed the case to the Supreme Court.  The NIA has accused the man, Shefin Jahan, in court of trying to recruit people for the Islamic State, a charge he denies.  The 24-year-old woman, who converted to Islam before marrying him and changed her name from Akhila to Hadiya, was placed in her father s custody by the high court after he said he feared for her well-being. There is no criminal case against her.  India s chief justice summoned Hadiya to New Delhi to testify on Monday on whether she had been forced to convert. In an interim order the Supreme Court removed Hadiya from her father s custody and said she could live in a hostel to complete her college education. The trial will begin in January.  This is for the first time in the history of India the top court will be asking a woman the validity of her marriage and her religious conversion,  said Kapil Sibal, a lawyer and a leader of the opposition Congress party. Sibal is representing Jahan. Jahan, 26, told Reuters he met Hadiya through a matrimonial website for Muslims while he was working in a pharmaceutical factory in Oman. He said he wanted to live with his wife, with whom he stayed for only 48 hours before her father complained to the police.  Our simple love story has turned into an ugly religious and legal battle,  Jahan said. The NIA investigation started in 2015 after the government identified Kerala, which sends tens of thousands of workers to the Middle East, as a potential hotbed of Islamic State recruitment.  Nearly half of Kerala s 33 million people practice Islam and Christianity. Police and the NIA said at least 100 people from Kerala have joined the IS in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The NIA s nine  Love Jihad  cases were based on complaints lodged by the parents of the Hindu girls and all were found to have links with IS, the NIA police sources said. The agency dropped the investigations into the other 80 cases because no links to militants were found, the sources said.  Across India, more than 270 men and 20 women have been arrested for working directly or indirectly with the IS, according to data at the federal Home Ministry.  But Kerala was the only state where the NIA found a direct link between cases of  Love Jihad  and the IS, the NIA sources said.  The agency says it has uncovered attempts by IS sympathizers to possibly send the women in  Love Jihad  marriages off to marry or stay with fighters from the militant group, the NIA sources said.  Two couples, who were questioned by the NIA last year, told Reuters police searched their homes.  I was shocked when they said maybe my husband was a jihadi, and he could be planning to send me to Syria,  said one woman who married a Muslim information technology professional in 2015. Police questioned her for six hours, she said, and before leaving, took pictures of her wedding album. worldnews
indian police ask interfaith couples is love terror new india reuters india supreme court started hearing case monday prosecutors say shows islamic state sympathizers using love jihad marrying hindu women converting islam win recruits spread message over past months national investigation agency nia picked dozens interfaith couples southern state kerala question marriages the women hindu married muslims asked extremely personal questions interrogations two police officers agency said did sleep husband getting married did suggest visit islamic shrines marriage did blackmail converted islam they looking cases love jihad term publicized rashtriya swayamsevak sang rss hardline hindu groups soon helped propel prime minister narendra modi power it refers groups say islamic campaign convert hindu women seduction marriage police investigations time found evidence organised strategy claim widely ridiculed but since nia began focusing kerala state along arabia sea strong economic links middle east it investigated cases love jihad found nine alliances planned people linked islamic state two nia sources said requesting anonymity investigation going the nia present evidence nine cases supreme court the agency declined disclose evidence but two cases examining money sent islamic school iraq women bank accounts another case woman husband shared is videos among people kerala village sources said opposition parties say investigation shows government allowing rss others use state apparatus agenda establishing hindu dominance india percent population muslim races federal lawmaker member communist party india marxists rules kerala said nia rss trying prove marriages hindu muslims forced unions the nia probe creating religious fault lines help modi party win kerala state elections defeat nandakumar rss leader oversees group activities state said nia investigation vindicated hindu right campaign religious conversions their first step convert hindu boys girls hypnotic prepare jihad said the rss founded first iteration modi ruling bharatiya canada party six decades ago believes india fundamentally hindu nation since modi election may rss expanded membership influence across india either affiliates run key ministries home ministry supervises nia finance ministry muslims account million india billion citizens increasing pressure hindu right muslims lynched killing cows considered sacred hinduism slaughter houses forced shut neither modi office nia would comment issue supreme court one muslim men whose marriage hindu woman annulled kerala high court appealed case supreme court the nia accused man shin japan court trying recruit people islamic state charge denies the woman converted islam marrying changed name aphia hadith placed father custody high court said feared there criminal case india chief justice summoned hadith new delhi testify monday whether forced convert in interim order supreme court removed hadith father custody said could live hostel complete college education the trial begin january this first time history india top court asking woman validity marriage religious conversion said kapil final lawyer leader opposition congress party final representing japan japan told reuters met hadith matrimonio website muslims working pharmaceutical factory oman he said wanted live wife stayed hours father complained police our simple love story turned ugly religious legal battle japan said the nia investigation started government identified kerala sends tens thousands workers middle east potential noted islamic state recruitment nearly half kerala million people practice islam christianity police nia said least people kerala joined is syria iraq afghanistan the nia nine love jihad cases based complaints lodged parents hindu girls found links is nia police sources said the agency dropped investigations cases links militants found sources said across india men women arrested working directly indirectly is according data federal home ministry but kerala state nia found direct link cases love jihad is nia sources said the agency says uncovered attempts is sympathizers possibly send women love jihad marriages marry stay fighters militant group nia sources said two couples questioned nia last year told reuters police searched homes i shocked said maybe husband jihad could planning send syria said one woman married muslim information technology professional police questioned six hours said leaving took pictures wedding album worldnews
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: Indian police ask interfaith couples: Is it love or terror?NEW DELHI/KOCHI, India (Reuters) - India s Supreme Court started hearing a case on Monday that prosecutors say shows how Islamic State sympathizers are using   Love Jihad    marrying Hindu women and converting them to Islam   to win recruits and spread their message. Over the past 28 months, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has picked up dozens of interfaith couples in the southern state of Kerala to question them about their marriages. The women - all Hindus who married Muslims   were asked  extremely personal  questions during the interrogations, two police officers from the agency said:  Did you sleep with your husband before getting married? Did he suggest you visit Islamic shrines before marriage? Did he blackmail you before you converted to Islam?   They were looking for cases of  Love Jihad , a term publicized by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other hardline Hindu groups soon after they helped propel Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in 2014. It refers to what these groups say is an Islamist campaign to convert Hindu women through seduction and marriage. Police investigations at the time found no evidence of any organised strategy, and the claim was widely ridiculed. But since then, the NIA began focusing on Kerala - a state along the Arabian Sea with strong economic links to the Middle East.  It investigated 89 cases of  Love Jihad  and found nine to be alliances planned by people linked to the Islamic State, two  NIA sources said, requesting anonymity because the investigation is going on. The NIA will present evidence in the nine cases to the Supreme Court.  The agency declined to disclose its evidence. But in two of the cases it was examining money sent from an Islamic school in Iraq to the women s bank accounts, and in another case a woman and her husband had shared IS videos among people in their Kerala village, the sources said. Opposition parties say the investigation shows the government is allowing the RSS and others to use the state apparatus to further an agenda of establishing Hindu dominance in India, where 13 percent of the population is Muslim. M.B Rajesh, a federal lawmaker and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which rules Kerala, said the NIA and the RSS were trying to prove that marriages between Hindus and Muslims  are forced unions .   The NIA s probe is creating religious fault lines to help Modi s party win (Kerala s) state elections, but we will defeat them.   J. Nandakumar, an RSS leader who oversees the group s activities in the state, said the NIA investigation vindicated the Hindu right s campaign against religious conversions.   Their first step is to convert Hindu boys and girls, hypnotise them and prepare them for jihad,  he said. The RSS, which founded the first iteration of Modi s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party six decades ago, believes India is fundamentally a Hindu nation.  Since Modi s election in May 2014, the RSS has expanded its membership and influence across India and either it or its affiliates now run key ministries, such as the home ministry, which supervises the NIA, and the finance ministry. Muslims   who account for 172 million of India s 1.32 billion citizens - have been under increasing pressure from the Hindu right. Muslims have been lynched for killing cows - considered sacred in Hinduism - and some of their slaughter houses forced to shut down.  Neither Modi s office nor the NIA would comment because the issue is before the Supreme Court. One of the Muslim men, whose marriage to a Hindu woman was annulled by Kerala s High Court, has appealed the case to the Supreme Court.  The NIA has accused the man, Shefin Jahan, in court of trying to recruit people for the Islamic State, a charge he denies.  The 24-year-old woman, who converted to Islam before marrying him and changed her name from Akhila to Hadiya, was placed in her father s custody by the high court after he said he feared for her well-being. There is no criminal case against her.  India s chief justice summoned Hadiya to New Delhi to testify on Monday on whether she had been forced to convert. In an interim order the Supreme Court removed Hadiya from her father s custody and said she could live in a hostel to complete her college education. The trial will begin in January.  This is for the first time in the history of India the top court will be asking a woman the validity of her marriage and her religious conversion,  said Kapil Sibal, a lawyer and a leader of the opposition Congress party. Sibal is representing Jahan. Jahan, 26, told Reuters he met Hadiya through a matrimonial website for Muslims while he was working in a pharmaceutical factory in Oman. He said he wanted to live with his wife, with whom he stayed for only 48 hours before her father complained to the police.  Our simple love story has turned into an ugly religious and legal battle,  Jahan said. The NIA investigation started in 2015 after the government identified Kerala, which sends tens of thousands of workers to the Middle East, as a potential hotbed of Islamic State recruitment.  Nearly half of Kerala s 33 million people practice Islam and Christianity. Police and the NIA said at least 100 people from Kerala have joined the IS in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The NIA s nine  Love Jihad  cases were based on complaints lodged by the parents of the Hindu girls and all were found to have links with IS, the NIA police sources said. The agency dropped the investigations into the other 80 cases because no links to militants were found, the sources said.  Across India, more than 270 men and 20 women have been arrested for working directly or indirectly with the IS, according to data at the federal Home Ministry.  But Kerala was the only state where the NIA found a direct link between cases of  Love Jihad  and the IS, the NIA sources said.  The agency says it has uncovered attempts by IS sympathizers to possibly send the women in  Love Jihad  marriages off to marry or stay with fighters from the militant group, the NIA sources said.  Two couples, who were questioned by the NIA last year, told Reuters police searched their homes.  I was shocked when they said maybe my husband was a jihadi, and he could be planning to send me to Syria,  said one woman who married a Muslim information technology professional in 2015. Police questioned her for six hours, she said, and before leaving, took pictures of her wedding album. worldnews
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: indian police ask interfaith couples is love terror new india reuters india supreme court started hearing case monday prosecutors say shows islamic state sympathizers using love jihad marrying hindu women converting islam win recruits spread message over past months national investigation agency nia picked dozens interfaith couples southern state kerala question marriages the women hindu married muslims asked extremely personal questions interrogations two police officers agency said did sleep husband getting married did suggest visit islamic shrines marriage did blackmail converted islam they looking cases love jihad term publicized rashtriya swayamsevak sang rss hardline hindu groups soon helped propel prime minister narendra modi power it refers groups say islamic campaign convert hindu women seduction marriage police investigations time found evidence organised strategy claim widely ridiculed but since nia began focusing kerala state along arabia sea strong economic links middle east it investigated cases love jihad found nine alliances planned people linked islamic state two nia sources said requesting anonymity investigation going the nia present evidence nine cases supreme court the agency declined disclose evidence but two cases examining money sent islamic school iraq women bank accounts another case woman husband shared is videos among people kerala village sources said opposition parties say investigation shows government allowing rss others use state apparatus agenda establishing hindu dominance india percent population muslim races federal lawmaker member communist party india marxists rules kerala said nia rss trying prove marriages hindu muslims forced unions the nia probe creating religious fault lines help modi party win kerala state elections defeat nandakumar rss leader oversees group activities state said nia investigation vindicated hindu right campaign religious conversions their first step convert hindu boys girls hypnotic prepare jihad said the rss founded first iteration modi ruling bharatiya canada party six decades ago believes india fundamentally hindu nation since modi election may rss expanded membership influence across india either affiliates run key ministries home ministry supervises nia finance ministry muslims account million india billion citizens increasing pressure hindu right muslims lynched killing cows considered sacred hinduism slaughter houses forced shut neither modi office nia would comment issue supreme court one muslim men whose marriage hindu woman annulled kerala high court appealed case supreme court the nia accused man shin japan court trying recruit people islamic state charge denies the woman converted islam marrying changed name aphia hadith placed father custody high court said feared there criminal case india chief justice summoned hadith new delhi testify monday whether forced convert in interim order supreme court removed hadith father custody said could live hostel complete college education the trial begin january this first time history india top court asking woman validity marriage religious conversion said kapil final lawyer leader opposition congress party final representing japan japan told reuters met hadith matrimonio website muslims working pharmaceutical factory oman he said wanted live wife stayed hours father complained police our simple love story turned ugly religious legal battle japan said the nia investigation started government identified kerala sends tens thousands workers middle east potential noted islamic state recruitment nearly half kerala million people practice islam christianity police nia said least people kerala joined is syria iraq afghanistan the nia nine love jihad cases based complaints lodged parents hindu girls found links is nia police sources said the agency dropped investigations cases links militants found sources said across india men women arrested working directly indirectly is according data federal home ministry but kerala state nia found direct link cases love jihad is nia sources said the agency says uncovered attempts is sympathizers possibly send women love jihad marriages marry stay fighters militant group nia sources said two couples questioned nia last year told reuters police searched homes i shocked said maybe husband jihad could planning send syria said one woman married muslim information technology professional police questioned six hours said leaving took pictures wedding album worldnews