Chatra, March 30 -- A play during Ramnavami celebrations in Jharkhand's Chatra district depicted a fictional scenario in which actors staged the consequences of "love jihad."

The play shows actors dressed as Muslim men in white kurtas, beards, and skullcaps, attacking a woman (also an actor) with swords. She falls to the ground injured, crying for help, and is portrayed as dead.

At this, one actor says, "Arey, yeh tho mar gayi malvi sahab, ab iska kya karein (She is dead. What should we do?)"

"Dafna do isko (Bury her off)," replies the 'maluvi.'

The audience, a majority of Hindus, watches the "Muslim men" chop off the "Hindu woman's body," stuff it into a gunny bag.

The scene pans to another actor, dressed in a red saree with a sword...