Author: TNM Staff
Publication: Thenewsminute.com
Date: August 19, 2017
URL:    http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/forcibly-converted-islam-efforts-take-her-syria-kerala-woman-s-father-hc-67042

Court has granted her protection after the young woman’s parents alleged that it was a case of 'love jihad'.

The Kerala High Court on Friday ordered the Director General of Police to allot necessary protection to a woman from Kannur, who is allededly facing threats from religious radicals.

Sruthi, a woman from Pariyaram of Kannur district was rescued after allegedly being in the illegal custody of a man.

The court ordered police protection while deciding on the petition filed by Sruthi’s parents, M Rajan and his wife.

According to reports, the woman's family had to relocate from Kannur after she allegedly received threats from PFI activists. Following this, they approached the HC.

The petitioner had argued that a person named Anees Hameed abducted their daughter, converted her to Islam and married her under religious customs. Later police traced his house and produced Sruthi before the magistrate court on July 21. While the woman first preferred to go with her husband, she later returned to her parents.

Sruthi had reportedly informed her parents that her husband was trying to take her to Syria.

The High Court also asked the DGP to enquire about the complaint that there was a plot planned to take Sruthi to Syria. The HC also ordered a stay on the Magistrate court’s search warrant based on a complaint filed by Hameed.

Speaking to TNM, Kannur SP G Siva Vikram said that media reports stating that the Sruthi's family had approached the court after their pleas to the police went in vain were incorrect.

"The family directly approached the court. I will instruct the jurisdictional DySP to provide police protection to the family," the SP said.

In his complaint, Sruthi’s father Rajan had stated that Hameed together with some religious organisations had threatened to take his daughter to Syria or Yemen. He also claimed that Hameed emotionally blackmailed Sruthi by pretending to be in love with her.

The parents also said that Hameed had now filed a complaint before the Payyannur Judicial First Class Magistrate Court alleging that the family has detained Sruthi.

The missing complaint was first filed by Rajan on May 16 after which the girl was produced before Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Taliparamba on July 21.