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After spending over 45 minutes with hadiya and her parents on Monday, Rekha Sharma said that hadiya is in good health and spirits and that she wants to talk to the court. The SC had asked hadiya’s father and the Kerala Police to produce her before the court on November 27, when the case will be heard.

hadiya's father, Asokan K M, alleges that his daughter may have been taken into illegal custody by individuals associated with the banned Popular Front of India, including her husband, Shafin Jahan.

National Commission for Women (NCW) acting chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday visited hadiya alias Akhila (24), whose marriage to a Muslim after conversion was annulled by the high court, at her residence in Vaikom.

The clinic was inaugurated on Friday by the president of the Othukungal grama panchayat at a function attended by eminent personalities from different walks of life.

Shafin Jahan, husband of Akhila Asokan alias hadiya, was allegedly in touch with two key chargesheeted accused in the terror group Islamic State (IS) Omar al-Hindi case — Manseed and P Safvan — via a closed Facebook group comprising activists of Popular Front of India (PFI)'s political arm SDPI.

The long pending desire of hadiya, a Kerala woman at the centre of an alleged love-jihad case, was fulfilled on Wednesday when she spoke to her husband over the phone.

A day after she arrived in the city to continue studies at a homeopathy medical college as directed by the Supreme Court, hadiya, a Kerala woman at the centre of an alleged love jihad case, on Wednesday reiterated her desire to talk to her husband.

hadiya, a Kerala woman at the centre of an alleged love-jihad case after converting to Islam, arrived here on Tuesday evening to continue studies at a homeopathy medical college as directed by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed hadiya alias Akhila, at the centre of an alleged love jihad case, to be freed from her father’s custody and resume her studies at a Salem-based homeopathic college after she repeatedly pleaded that she wanted the freedom to make her own choices.

"It is hadiya's own victory, we only supported her.She had shown the courage to stand upright and tell the Supreme Court what she wanted.

Women activists belonging to a Facebook Collective named Feminist Reading group has alleged that Akhila hadiya, who is confined to her home for the past four months, is being physically and mentally tortured at her home.

The father of the Kerala woman, at the centre of the alleged 'love jihad' case, on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court decision allowing her to continue her studies. "hadiya does not have any idea about Syria, where she wanted to go after converting to Islam," Ashokan said.

Zainaba, who is one of the parties in the case, filed an affidavit and contended that the allegations against her were baseless as hadiya had decided to embrace Islam on her own.

The SC restored the marriage of hadiya, aka Akhila Asokan, with Shafin Jahan on Thursday, 10 months after the Kerala high court annulled it and placed her in parental custody besides ordering a probe into a possible 'love jihad' angle to the marriage solemnised after her conversion to Islam.

hadiya, whose marriage to a Muslim youth had triggered a nationwide controversy, has demanded compensation from the state government for the loss she incurred after the high court nullified her marriage and sent her away with her parents.

Trespassing charges were filed against seven people, including six women, who came to meet hadiya, who was known as Akhila before she chose to convert to Islam, at her house on Wednesday.

Police here have beefed up security for a government pleader who appeared in hadiya case at the Kerala high court after he filed a complaint alleging threat to his life. In a complaint, senior government pleader, alleged that threats have been made against his life in a Facebook post.

Activist Rahul Easwar released a 16-second-long video footage of Akhila aka hadiya on Thursday wherein she stated that her life was under threat and that she was being tortured and harassed by her father at her home.