; and (4) arrests of Muslim men for marrying Hindu women in the name of the false theory of Love Jihad ; Whereas India’s federal government and various state governments have failed to prosecute the culprits and bring justice to the victims, which has been noted in the 2021 Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and the 2021 Department of State Report on International Religious Freedom; Whereas in 2020, 2021, and 2022, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended that the Department of State designate India as a country of particular concern for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) ; Whereas India has failed to act against partisan leaders from the Hindu religious community for repeatedly calling for a genocide of India’s Muslims, such as Pooja Shakun Pandey, a leader of Hindu Mahasabha, who stated, in December 2021, in the holy Hindu city of Haridwar in Uttar Pradesh, If 100 of us are ready to kill 2,000,000 [Muslims], then we will win and make India a Hindu nation ; Whereas the Indian state of Karnataka has, without cause, banned Muslim female students from wearing the hijab in schools and colleges, which violates their fundamental rights guaranteed under article 14 of the Constitution of India; Whereas in August 2019, Jammu and Kashmir, the only Indian state with a majority Muslim population— (1) was deprived of its special autonomy without ensuring consultation or any participation of the people living in Jammu and Kashmir; and (2) was split into 2 federally governed union territories