(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Hadiya, a 24-year-old Hindu woman from Kerala who converted to Islam, said yesterday she wants to live with her Muslim husband.
Hadiya was speaking to reporters at Kochi airport before leaving for Delhi to be present before the Supreme Court tomorrow in a case of alleged forced conversion.
As she was brought to Kochi airport amid tight security, Hadiya loudly told the waiting journalists that she wants to go with her husband, Shafin Jahan.
'I embraced Islam at my own will. There was no compulsion. Shafin Jahan is my husband. I am a Muslim. I should get justice. That's the only thing that I want to say, she said.
Hadiya was accompanied by three women police officers and two policemen besides her parents.
In the afternoon, she was moved from her home at Vaikom in a convoy of police vehicles to Kochi airport to take the evening flight to Delhi.
Rights activists had protested against the 'house arrest of the woman, previously known by her Hindu name Akhila Asokan, not allowing her to meet people she wanted to, though her parents denied it.
Rahul Easwar, a rights activist who got a rare chance to speak to Hadiya, released a video in which she said she was being confined to home and tortured.
However, a police report to the Women's Commission said the charge of torture was not true.
Unlike other boy-meets-girl stories, Jehan met the Hadiya through a matchmaking website after she embraced Islam. Her father Asokan insists that he was not against his daughter practising any religion but alleges her husband had IS links.
In Delhi she will stay at the Kerala House, where four rooms have been booked for the team from Kerala.
The court on October 30 had ordered Hadiya's father, K M Asokan to present her in the court tomorrow to ascertain her views on her marriage to Shafin Jahan.
On Wednesday, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice D Y Chandrachud said that a request for an in-camera hearing would be decided tomorrow.
The court is hearing a plea by Shafin Jahan challenging a Kerala High Court order of May nullifying his marriage with Hadiya and seeking cancellation of its order asking the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to investigate Hadiya's conversion and her marriage.
On November 18, an NIA team went to home for the second time and took statements from her and her parents to present their case before the court.
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