DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief ministerPushkar Singh Dhami on Friday directed the state director general of police Ashok Kumar and additional director general of police (ADGP), law and order, V Murugesan, to take “strict action against the accused in cases of “love jihad”.

This comes amid the ongoing communal tension in some parts of the state with “at least four ‘love jihad’ incidents reported in the past 12 days”.“The DGP has been asked to compile ‘love jihad’ cases of past months.

People of Uttarakhand live harmoniously, but that doesn’t mean we would tolerate such crimes here.

The number of such cases has risen in the last couple of months.

People are now aware of it and coming forward to prevent it.

Their anger is understandable…” said chief minister Dhami.The CM added: “We think that ‘love jihad’ is being carried out as a planned strategy.

Our government has already introduced a strict anti-conversion law and will continue to take every possible action to stop such crimes.”