‘WORLD’S HEAVIEST WOMAN’ EMAN AHMED PASSES AWAY

Eman Ahmed, the world’s heaviest woman who underwent a weight-loss surgery in Mumbai earlier this year, passed away in Abu Dhabi on Monday morning, just a week after celebrating her 37th birthday. Officials from the Burjeel Hospital confirmed the news, adding that numerous co-morbid conditions caused death.

Police in Kochi have registered a case against five people including the director of a Hindu charitable trust after a 26-year-old woman filed a complaint on Monday alleging that she was forcibly detained at the centre and physically and mentally tortured for marrying a Christian man.

The incident comes two days after a 22-year-old woman hailing from north Kerala claimed to have returned to Hinduism after having converted to Islam.

In the latest case, the woman named Shweta said she was forcibly taken to the centre by her parents who conspired with the man running the Arsha Vidya Samajam - its director Guruji Manoj - and tried to force her to marry a Hindu man.

She also claimed that she escaped from the centre on August 21 and went back to stay with her husband.

“There were such 65 girls illegally detained at the centre and many complained that they were physically and mentally tortured. I was forced to attend classes where only evils of other religions were taught,” she said.

Following her complaint police registered a case against Manoj and four others. By Monday evening, Shweta told local media that she married Rinto Thomas in a court and there was no question of conversion.