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Produce Hadiya before court on November 27: Supreme Court

hadiya-akhila (File photo) Hadiya

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the father of a Kerala woman, who had converted to Islam and married a Muslim man, to produce her before it on November 27.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud ordered that Hadiya should speak in open court and not in camera.

Ashokan had pleaded before the court that the case be heard in-camera.

The woman, Akhila, a Hindu, had converted to Islam and later married Jahan. She had also taken the name Hadiya. It was alleged that the woman was recruited by Islamic State's mission in Syria and Jahan was only a stooge.

The marriage had been challenged in the High Court by Hadiya's father, who also alleged that her husband had links with terror group IS.

According to media reports, the court said, ""Marriage is a personal affair. There is no law stating that a person can't marry a criminal. Don't try to curb individual cases."

The NIA, which probed the love jihad case, told the court, "Consent is manipulated by indoctrination, radicalisation. In fact, people with hypnotic expertise have been employed to manipulate young women."

(With agency inputs) 

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