New Delhi: Nearly two months after Hadiya, a Kerala woman at the center of a religious conversion row, was freed from her parents' custody, the Supreme Court Tuesday continued hearing in the controversial case.
Key contentions
• Supreme Court not to interfere in Hadiya's marriage, says NIA should not probe marriage
• Hadiya has informed that the she got married as per her wishes, says SC
• When the girl says I don’t want to go with father, how can the court compel? She is an adult, she appeared and made the statement: SC
• It is for Hadiya to decide about her marriage. If she says she has no issues, that's the end of the issue: Justice Chandrachud
• Hadiya made a party to the proceedings
• Hadiya to file her reply on Feb 22
• Lawyer for Hadiya's father said the circumstances leading to the marriage need to be investigated
• But CJI said you cannot investigate on marital status of Hadiya
• SC says NIA can continue with its probe but it cannot investigate into the marital status of the man and the woman
• Whether the marriage can be annulled or not? thats the issue before us, says SC
• We are not concerned with the investigation, it is a different issue: SC
• NIA tells SC it has made substantial progress into the case
• The 25-year-old Hindu woman from Kerala had converted to Islam and married a Muslim, Shafin Jahan. But the marriage was annulled by the Kerala High Court and Hadiya was put in her parents' custody.
• In August, the Supreme Court directed the NIA to probe the matter after Hadiya's husband challenged the Kerala High Court order that nullified their marriage.
• The NIA had earlier alleged in the court that there was a 'well-oiled machinery working in Kerala' which indulged in indoctrination and radicalization of women, and 89 such cases have been reported.
• The Supreme Court had on November 27 freed her from parents' custody and allowed her to continue her studies at Sivaraj Homoeopathic Medical Colleges and Research Institute, Salem.
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