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Founder of India's Love Commandos NGO held over extortion claims
Source: The Guardian
Founder of India's Love Commandos NGO held over extortion claims
Sanjoy Sachdev’s group offers shelter to couples at risk of ‘honour’ killings
Michael Safi in Delhi
Thu 31 Jan 2019 13.04 GMT
The founder of a celebrated Indian NGO that provides shelter to couples in interfaith or intercaste relationships has been arrested on suspicion of extorting and confining people in his care.
Love Commandos, co-founded by the activist Sanjoy Sachdev in 2010, has been the subject of international documentaries and celebrity fundraising campaigns for its work providing safe houses to Indian couples at risk of being murdered by their families in so-called “honour” killings.
It is said to have rescued thousands of couples who have been threatened by their families for falling in love with someone outside their caste, religion or who are rejected by their parents for other reasons.
On Tuesday, police commenced a criminal investigation against Sachdev, 58, on allegations of extortion, intimidation and confinement. He was arrested outside the organisation’s shelter in Delhi.
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Sanjoy Sachdev’s group offers shelter to couples at risk of ‘honour’ killings
Michael Safi in Delhi
Thu 31 Jan 2019 13.04 GMT
The founder of a celebrated Indian NGO that provides shelter to couples in interfaith or intercaste relationships has been arrested on suspicion of extorting and confining people in his care.
Love Commandos, co-founded by the activist Sanjoy Sachdev in 2010, has been the subject of international documentaries and celebrity fundraising campaigns for its work providing safe houses to Indian couples at risk of being murdered by their families in so-called “honour” killings.
It is said to have rescued thousands of couples who have been threatened by their families for falling in love with someone outside their caste, religion or who are rejected by their parents for other reasons.
On Tuesday, police commenced a criminal investigation against Sachdev, 58, on allegations of extortion, intimidation and confinement. He was arrested outside the organisation’s shelter in Delhi.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/31/sanjoy-sachdev-founder-india-love-commandos-ngo-held-over-extortion-claims-shelter-couples-honour-killings
Sanjoy Sachdev, founder of the Love Commandos, speaks at the group’s shelter in Delhi. Photograph: Rebecca Conway/AFP/Getty Images
