Mangalore: Students of Islamic Organization (SIO) of India have condemned the recent incident in December 2013 at Deralakatte were an attempt to blackmail a Muslim medical student from Kerala (boy) and a Bihari girl Student of the another medical college who were friendly with each other but the attempt failed miserably with the intervention of Konaje police.

The SIO stated that an attempt has now been made to give it a political color and exploit a minority community as a hole just because the Muslim doctor is set to be co-operating with the gangsters from the beginning to extort ransom money from the girl student in the name of Love Jihad between a boy and a girl.

SIO was while condemning the incident of blackmail and demanding strict punishment according to law, for the gang of 8 now in judicial custody, has also criticized the politics played by certain leaders under the pretext of Love Jihad.

The SIO has regretted whatever that took place in Deralakatte in Dec. 2013.