LOVE JIHAD: WANT TO LIVE WITH HUBBY, SAYS HADIYA
Hadiya aka Akhila, who is allegedly a victim of ‘Love Jihad,’ said on Saturday that she had embraced Islam on her own free will and wanted to go with her husband Shefin Jahan.
She also said she needed justice and that there was no compulsion from anyone in her changing the religion.
Hadiya, who will appear in the Supreme Court on Monday as directed by a bench headed by the chief justice, expressed her stand to mediapersons at the Nedumbassery airport before she was taken to New Delhi by a flight in the afternoon.
It was for the first time that she appeared in public after the Kerala High Court in May annulled her marriage to Shefin Jahan.
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She later took a flight to Delhi accompanied by her father, mother Ponnamma and a team of police personnel headed by Kaduthurthy circle inspector Johnson, another woman circle inspector, two women civil police officers and a male civil police officer.
Hadiya and others are expected to stay in Kerala House in Delhi.
The Kerala High Court had annulled Hadiya’s marriage after her father approached the court expressing fears that his daughter will be taken abroad for alleged terrorist activities.
Her husband Jehan filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the HC verdict.