Interfaith Marriage-Family Coordination Committee
Interfaith Marriage-Family Coordination Committee
Maharashtra has set up a panel, named “Intercaste/ Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee (state level)”, to gather detailed information about couples in such marriages, and the maternal families of the women involved if they are estranged. The Eknath Shinde government claims the decision was prompted by the gruesome murder of 27-year-old Shraddha Walkar, allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in May. Walkar, who hailed from Vasai near Mumbai, was killed in Delhi.
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