The family of Hadiya, whose conversion to Islam and subsequent marriage to a man named Shafin Jahan resulted in a controversy, has moved the Kerala High Court saying that they were unable to trace her for the past one month.

Her father, Asokan K M, has moved the High Court saying he apprehends that his daughter has been taken into illegal custody by certain people including her husband, who are allegedly part of the banned Popular Front of India.

The plea may come up for hearing on Tuesday, a lawyer in connection with the matter said.

Asokan told the high court that for the past one month, Hadiya was untraceable to him and his wife.

He claimed that whenever they called their daughter, either she was not receiving any calls or on many occasions, the mobile phone was switched off.

Asokan also claimed that they went to her recently opened homoeo clinic at Malappuram but it was found closed and the neighbours didn’t have any idea about the same.

“Any kind of harm can be caused to the detenu by the persons behind the 4th and the 6th respondents who are the active members of the PFI, the banned organisation. Now the detenu is under the control of this gang and unless she is produced before the Hon’ble court and sent along with the petitioner, her life would be in danger,” the petition said.

The fourth respondent in the petition is A S Sainaba, the former office-bearer of National Women’s Front, the women’s wing of banned PFI and the sixth respondent is Hadiya’s husband, Jahan.

Asokan also claimed before the court that Hadiya has told the family that she got separated from her husband.

Meanwhile, a few days ago, Hadiya spoke to a regional television channel in which she claimed that she got separated from her husband Jahan.

She also said that she got married again to another person and it was her personal matter.

“The Sangh Parivar is using my father as a tool. He is playing according to their tunes,” she was seen saying in the interview to the TV channel.

She claimed that she was in regular touch with her parents and despite that her parents were causing trouble.

Hadiya, had converted to Islam during her medical studies in Coimbatore and married Jahan in 2016 when she was 25 years old.

Soon, Asokan had filed a writ petition in the High Court saying the conversion was forced and Jahan had links to extremist organisations like PFI. He had also argued that she would be trafficked to Syria to join the Islamic State.

The High Court had then annulled the marriage, calling it a ‘sham’.

However, Jahan later approached the Supreme Court and in 2018, the top court had set aside the High Court order.

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Three people, including two shooters, were arrested from Haryana yesterday for the brutal murder of Karni Sena Chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, officials have said. 

The two shooters –  Rohit Rathore and Nitin Fauji – were arrested from Chandigarh late ast evening in a joint operation by the Delhi police and the Rajasthan police. 

They were accompanied by one more associate, Udham Singh, who was also caught, officials said. 

On Saturday, Rajasthan police had arrested Ramveer Jat for allegedly helped the shooters – Rohit and Nitin – flee the spot on his bike and dropped them off at Ajmer Road.

Three men shot Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi multiple times from point-blank range at his Jaipur home on Tuesday, after having tea with him. While one of them was killed, two others are on the run.

The Rajput leader’s sensational murder, caught on CCTV cameras, sparked massive protests in Rajasthan.
 

Amid the protest over the appointment of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s Akbaruddin Owaisi as a pro-tem Speaker of the assembly, Telangana Minister and Congress leader Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday said that “It is a normal procedure and added that the Congress party did what was the right thing to do”.

“Going by seniority in Assembly, I should have been the pro-tem Speaker, the senior most MLA in the Congress party, but since I have taken an oath as a minister, the procedure didn’t allow me to be a pro-tem Speaker. So then we looked at other 6-term MLAs, the most senior MLAs. Akbaruddin Owaisi is the most senior MLA among all the parties. So it is a normal procedure,” he told ANI.

Further, Reddy defended the appointment of an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLA as the pro-tem Speaker, stating it was a normal procedure followed even during the previous BRS government. He emphasised that the decision was made based on what was right, not due to any external factors.

“When the BRS government was there last time, they had an AIMIM MLA as the pro-tem Speaker. This has nothing to do with anything else. We did what was the right thing to do. I cannot comment on the future equation with AIMIM. That’s for our state leadership to discuss with everybody. And also for our national leadership to discuss and give us a direction,” Telangana Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy said.

Meanwhile, objecting to the appointment of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s Akbaruddin Owaisi as a pro-tem Speaker of the assembly, Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party chief and Union minister G Kishan Reddy said on Saturday that the BJP decided to boycott the oath-taking event, alleging violation of assembly rules in the appointment of pro-tem Speaker.

G Kishan Reddy further said that the BJP will go to the Governor on the issue of the pro-tem Speaker.

“BJP is against the appointment of Akbaruddin Owaisi as Pro-tem Speaker (of Telangana Assembly). This is against the tradition of appointing senior MLAs to the post.The BJP MLAs will boycott taking oaths before this pro-tem Speaker,” he said.

“Our MLAs will take oaths after a speaker is appointed. We will never ally with such a party (AIMIM). We will go to the governor on this,” he added.

The Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Congress government of ‘neglecting’ the senior candidates for the post and of defying the existing tradition of the House.

Citing violation of assembly rules in the appointment of pro-tem Speaker, he said, “There is a tradition of appointing senior leaders as the pro-tem speakers. However, they (Congress) have appointed Akbaruddin Owaisi due to their understanding with AIMIM. We object to this.”

On Friday, AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi took oath as pro-tem Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly in Raj Bhawan, Hyderabad.

The oath was administered by Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan. Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was also present on the occasion.

The governor appointed Akbaruddin Owaisi as the pro-tem speaker of the state assembly on Friday.

The first session of the third Telangana State Legislative Assembly began today.

The pro-tem speaker serves a temporary role, officiating the assembly session until the newly-elected members are sworn in and a speaker is elected.

Earlier on Thursday, twelve MLAs took oaths as ministers in a fresh cabinet in Telangana, along with new Chief Minister Anumula Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad. Revanth Reddy became the first Congress Chief Minister of the youngest state in India.

Congress won an absolute majority in Telangana for the first time, winning 64 of 119 seats.

Telangana Congress President Revanth Reddy won by a margin of 32,532 votes in Kodangal against BRS’s Patnam Narender Reddy.

Meanwhile, the Telangana BJP took to ‘X’ and criticised the new Congress government over the appointment of the AIMIM MLA as the pro-tem speaker.

“The Congress government in Telangana is like a nose that blows when it sneezes. That is why Telangana state BJP President and Union Minister @kishanreddybjp has expressed his opposition to the decision of the Congress to write off the tradition of the Legislative Assembly by assigning the post of Protem Speaker to Akbaruddin Owaisi to tame the Majlis Party and not the seniors in the Assembly”, said the party in a post on X.

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