In 2019, Ekta was killed by Shakib and his associates. She was first beheaded and then her body was chopped into several pieces and buried, as per police report.
Madhya Pradesh HC ruled that a mandatory provision in the MP Freedom of Religion Act 2021, which requires the district magistrate to be notified before a person converts, is 'unconstitutional'
Speaking in the context of these gruesome murders and love Jihad cases, Union Minister Kaushal Kishore has urged Muslim clerics to issue Fatwa directing Muslim men not to target Hindu girls.