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SC questions whether Kerala HC was justified in annulling Hadiya's marriage

Team SoOLEGAL 22 Feb 2018 3:25pm

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SC questions whether Kerala HC was justified in annulling  Hadiya's marriage

New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud while listening to plea on Kerala conversion case observed if a roving inquiry could be ordered into the "issue of consent" between two adults who married at will and if the Kerala High Court order annulling the marriage of Hadiya, an alleged victim of 'love jihad' and sending her to her parents' custody, was justified.

Whether the high court was justified in nullifying the marriage is a pure question of law, it added. "Marriage and investigation are two different things. As far as marriage is concerned, it does not warrant any investigation. Investigation has nothing to do with it. You can investigate any other thing," the court said.

Hadiya, the 25-year-old woman who is at the fore front  of an alleged love jihad controversy, had on Tuesday filed an affidavit before the top court claiming that she willingly converted to Islam and wants to live with her husband Shafin Jahan.

On November 27 last year, the apex court had freed Hadiya from her parents' custody and sent her to college to pursue her studies, even as she had pleaded that she should be allowed to go with her husband.



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