JALANDHAR: Police investigations in the case of disappearance of a 14-year-old dalit girl with a boy named Pardeep Kumar from Bihar last year, which has now been labeled as a case of ‘ Love Jihad ’ by the BJP leaders, have revealed that the boy actually belonged to a Brahmin family .

His father, mother and sister were arrested by the police as their names were also given in the complaint to the police by the girl’s father Nirdosh Kumar of village Gohawar near Goraya and the three are out on bail after remaining in jail while the boy has been declared a Proclaimed Offender .

“When they were arrested they were reciting Ram Ram and would repeatedly remember the gods while pleading innocence and also trying to regain their composures,” said a police official who was part of the investigators in the case.

“Police investigated the case thoroughly and a police party had even gone to their native village Madhopur under police station Madhuban in district Motihari in Bihar and girl’s family was also aware of these attempts. No where during the investigations there was an iota of suspicion that the family was a Muslim, rather the visit to their native village confirmed that they were Brahmins,” said Goraya SHO Daljit Singh Gill.

Accused Pardeep Kumar’s father’s name is Ramu and grand father’s name is Rodhui Bhagat. His mother’s name is Radha and sister is Kavita who is also married in a Hindu family. The girl was a student of Kamla Nehru Public School, Chak Hakim, Phagwara and Pardeep was driver of the bus in which she used to g the school.

Notably parents of the girl on Thursday appeared before the Punjab SC Commission chairman Rajesh Bagha along with some BJP leaders including BJP cultural cell convener Krishan Lal Sharma and district rural president Arun Sharma and in the written complaint her father Nirdosh Kumar alleged that the boy was actually a Muslim who had adapted a Hindu name.

In a press release issued by Krishan Lal Sharma who also heads Yuva Hindu Manch alleged that it was a case of ‘Love Jihad’.

Police officials revealed that though the case pertained to October 12 last year but in the last one year girl’s family never raised the issue that boy was actually a Muslim and had disguised as a Hindu. “Suddenly they have come up with this theory,” remarked a police official.