Hadiya says she wants meeting with 'husband', more 'freedom'

Kerala woman Hadiya said on Wednesday that she wants total freedom and also wants to meet her husband.

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the 24-year-old to go to Tamil Nadu's Salem to continue her homoeopathic studies, away from parental supervision.

A day after arriving at the college, Hadiya said she is only asking for her fundamental rights. "I asked for freedom from the court... I do not know whether I got it... I have no phone, haven't contacted anyone whom I like (so far)," she told reporters.

Her marriage had been annulled in May by the Kerala High Court on her father's appeal after Akhila Ashokan converted to Islam and married Shafin Jahan in 2016. Her father had said the marriage was a form of recruitment by terror group ISIS and she was to be sent to Syria.

For the past six months, she said, "I was talking to people (parents) l did not like because of their harassment," she said.

Jahan has challenged the High Court order and also a sanction given by the apex court to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe allegations of Hindu women being lured by members of terror outfits.

The larger issue on the court's right to intrude on an individual's autonomy and the reports prepared by NIA on the dangers of forced radicalisation will be taken up in the third week of January.

COURT’S ORDERS

• On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed Hadiya to go to Salem to continue her homoeopathic studies.
   
• It also allowed her to stay away from parental supervision and study under the name Akhila Ashokan — her name before conversion.