Kerala love jihad case: Hadiya to appear in SC today

November 27, 2017 09:48

Kerala woman Hadiya, who is at the centre of the Love Jihad controversy, will appear before the Supreme Court today and present her side of the argument on her alleged forced conversion to Islam.

Hadiya, who arrived in the national capital on Saturday, has said that she wanted to be with her husband.

"I am a Muslim. I was not forced. I want to be with my husband," the 25-year-old woman, wearing a head scarf, shouted when she was board a flight to Delhi on Saturday.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra will hear Hadiyas testimony in the case.

The National Investigation Agency and Hadiyas father K M Ashokan have contended that Hadiya had been indoctrinated by radical groups and her consent was not free.

Senior advocate Shyam Divan, appearing for woman's father K M Ashokan, claimed that her husband, Shafin Jahan, was a radicalised man and several organisations like Popular Front of India were involved in radicalisation of society.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, counsel for Jahan, had opposed NIA's submission and that of the woman's father.

Hadiya, a Hindu, had converted to Islam and later married Jahan.

It was alleged that she was recruited by ISIS' mission in Syria and Jahan was only a stooge.

Jahan had on September 20 approached the apex court seeking recall of its August 16 order, directing the NIA to investigate the controversial case of conversion and marriage of a Hindu woman with him.

Meanwhile, the Kerala government on October 7 told the Supreme Court that its police conducted a "thorough investigation" into her conversion and subsequent marriage to Jahan and did not find material warranting the transfer of probe to the National Investigation Agency.

Jahan had moved the Supreme Court after the Kerala high court annulled his marriage, saying it was an insult to the independence of women in the country.

Photograph: ANI

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