BELAGAVI: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the plea of the mother of a girl who allegedly got radicalised in Kerala, married a Muslim and then fled to Afghanistan to join the ISIS when she was seven months pregnant.
The development assumes significance in wake of the upcoming Hadiya case which also involves the conversion of a young woman from Kerala and her subsequent marriage to a Muslim on November 27, when the court has sought her presence. But the girl’s father had sought that the proceedings be held in-camera.
Bindu Sampath has approached the apex court seeking an NIA probe into the alleged forced conversion of their daughter and as well as in the other reported instances of love jihad, as a mode of indoctrination/recruitment into terrorist and anti-national activities, taking place across Kerala as well as the rest of the country.”
The petition states that the girl was forcibly converted through ‘love jihad’ and was being lured into joining the ISIS in Afghanistan.However, a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to issue notice but agreed to hear the case after two weeks.
The petition also alleged that her daughter had fallen trap to love jihad and this had wrecked havoc in their lives. The petitioner said that when the girl was studying in a dental college, she fell into the trap to a sinister radical Islamic design.
“The mother alleged that terrorist organisations like the ISIS are operating a well-orchestrated and well-oiled scheme. It is not a case of isolated instances of entrapment and exploitation but one involving a motivated scheme of operation at a much larger scale. Young, impressionable and vulnerable girls and boys professing Hinduism, Sikhism, and Christianity are identified for conversion to Islam with the eventual motive to recruit them for practising or propagating jihad.”