SC order at 2pm over annulment of Hadiya's marriage by HC
March 08, 2018  12:50
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The Supreme Court said today that it will pass a short order at 2 pm over Kerala High Court's annulment of marriage of Hadiya, an alleged victim of 'love jihad'.


A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud put up the matter for order after lunch on the plea filed by a man, who claimed to be the woman's husband, challenging a Kerala High Court order annulling his marriage with her.


Earlier this week, the father of the woman, who is alleged to be a victim of love jihad, claimed before the apex court that his efforts prevented his daughter from being transported to "extremist-controlled territories" of Syria to be used as a "sex slave or a human bomb".


In a fresh affidavit, K M Asokan said that his daughter Hadiya was a "vulnerable adult" and she "abjectly surrendered herself to complete strangers who adopted her into their fold, offering her shelter and protection and further imparted religious indoctrination in an isolated environment".


He was responding to an affidavit filed by his daughter, who had earlier told the apex court that she had willingly converted to Islam and wanted to remain a Muslim. -- PTI
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