‘I am a Muslim and want to remain one’,says Hadiya to Supreme Court

Kerala Love Jihad : ‘I am a Muslim and want to remain one’,says Hadiya to Supreme Court

In the alleged Kerala Love Jihad case, the 24-year-old woman Hadiya has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that she is a Muslim and wanted to remain as a Muslim.

In the affidavit, she further stated that she wants to stay the wife of Shafi Jahan, for whom she had converted to Islam in order to get married.

Hadiya had repeatedly petitioned the apex court, requesting that she be allowed to be with her husband after the Kerala High Court annulled their marriage in May last year, terming it as an instance of ‘love jihad’. The HC had also made Hadiya’s father her legal guardian.

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Jahan had challenged the high court order in the Supreme Court, which in turn referred the investigation to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Matters took a hairy turn when the NIA submitted before the SC that a “well-oiled machinery working in Kerala” was indulging in indoctrination and radicalisation of women, and 89 such cases had been reported.

Last month, a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the legality of marriages among consenting adults couldn’t be examined by courts and investigating agencies and added that its decision on Hadiya’s marriage to Shafin Jahan would not be influenced by the NIA probe it had ordered into the larger “love jihad conspiracy”.