Raising the bogey of “love jihad”, workers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other Hindutva groups on Friday clashed with police in Ghaziabad over the marriage of a Hindu girl with a Muslim boy .

The BJP workers, accompanied by representatives of other Hindutva outfits including the Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and Jai Shiv Sena, staged a sit-in protest outside the house of the parents of the girl and disrupted traffic, news agency IANS reported.

The girl’s father had organised a reception after the marriage at his house.

His daughter Nupur Singhal is a psychologist, who has done her PhD in Human Psychology, while her husband Mansoor Harhat Khan is an MBA and is working with a private company. His family originally belongs to Aligarh, while his father Harhat Bashir Khan lives in Delhi and also owns a house in Noida.

“They have decided to live together, so they have registered their marriage under the Special Marriage Act in Ghaziabad. We had arranged a reception party. I don’t see any love-jihad in their marriage,” Pushpendra Kumar said.

They are in touch with the Noida SSP as they apprehend that on Saturday, “some mischief” could take place in Noida, at the house of the boy’s father.

The police said they used mild force to disperse the crowd. “How can the police allow people to barge into someone’s house? We got a distress call and we performed our duty,” said SSP HN Singh.