My Parents Need Time To Accept I'm Muslim: Hadiya

Hadiya and husband Shefin Jahan in Kozhikode on Monday

Hadiya and husband Shefin Jahan in Kozhikode on Monday

"I don't think my parents would want to harm me but they were under the influence of some anti-national forces", Hadiya said without elaborating which forces she was referring to. "But when my issue became a controversy, they joined my critics", she said. The SC had observed that a marriage can not be nullified on the basis of habeas corpus.

On being asked what "anti-national" forces she was referring to, Hadiya said, "They are using them (parents) for political benefits". "Since I know my parents well, I want to give them some time to come out of their tension".

"I willingly converted and married Shafin".

Hadiya, on March 10, had held a brief press meet after she and her husband met the chief of Popular Front of India (PFI) to thank him for the legal assistance they provided the couple with regard to Hadiya's conversion to Islam.

Clarifying to reporters that she had not demanded any compensation from her parents, Hadiya said, "There were some reports in the media that I demanded compensation from my parents". She started the interaction saying, "I am an ordinary girl from a very normal middle-class family, and hence, my answers and queries will be as normal as I am".

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The Kerala High Court in May, last year, annulled the marriage on a complaint by her father terming it as an instance of "love jihad". My parents and I have a blood relation.

Hadiya will resume her education in Salem March 13 onwards.

The apex court had in August previous year asked the National Investigation Agency to probe the case of conversion and marriage of Hadiya, as the agency claimed a "pattern" was emerging in Kerala.

The matter came to the fore when Jahan had challenged a Kerala High Court order annulling his marriage with her and sending the woman to her parents' custody.

The high court had in May past year annulled the marriage terming it as an instance of "love jihad", following which Jahan had approached the apex court.

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