[2] Love across the barriers of caste, religion and economic class can be problematic, resulting in violence and occasionally honor killing.

The police have been known to refuse protection to such couples, sometimes even siding with parents and arresting the male lovers on false charges of rape.

However, Hakim Abdul, who appeared in the same episode with his wife, was murdered five months later in November 2012 in Bulandshahr village in western Uttar Pradesh.

[8] In the same year, photographer Max Pinckers featured Love Commandos and eloped couples in his photobook, Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty.

[9] In 2014, a girl, whose father was a liquor baron in Agra, eloped with a man and sought shelter with the Love Commandos in nearby New Delhi.

Agra police allegedly managed to find the girl's location in a suburban area in New Delhi by using her cellphone signal.

[10] The organization was featured in Tarquin Hall's fourth book starring the fictional private investigator Vish Puri, The Case of the Love Commandos.