In the present plea, Asokan claimed that the marriage between Hadiya and Jahan is only on paper and that there is no actual marital relationship between them. He said that the homeopathy clinic that Hadiya had started after she completed her medicine course, closed sometime back.
He also alleged that Hadiya is sick, both mentally and physically.
Interestingly, he has also cited some judgments of the High Court that were delivered before the Supreme Court’s 2018 verdict, in which the High Court had supposedly held that “the parents are the proper persons to take decisions concerning the career and future of their daughters and parents will be entitled to have control over their children especially daughters to protect them from the vagaries of their immature minds“
He has also reiterated his earlier contention that Hadiya is being forced to learn the teachings for “joining Islam“
Alleging that she is being illegally detained by Jahan and his family, Asokan has approached the High Court.
Source: Barandbench
