STREAMING corporation Netflix has become embroiled in India’s campaign against so-called “love jihad” after a scene in its hit serialisation of classic novel A Suitable Boy angered officials of the far-right ruling party.

A police case has been filed against two of the company’s top executive for India over a scene in which the story’s protagonist Lata, a Hindu, kisses a Muslim suitor.

It comes in the week that India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, passed a “Hitler-like” law restricting interfaith marriages and slapping jail terms of up to 10 years on anyone found guilty of using marriage to “convert a woman from one religion to another.”