Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jan 23: A girl from Kasargod district, who had abandoned her studies midway when in the final year law degree course of a college here, told the Bombay high court that she wants to go with her parents. The student had married a boy belonging to another religion hailing from Mumbai.
The high court accordingly directed her to be sent with her parents. At the same time, it has stayed the case of abduction lodged by her husband. With this, in all likelihood, Sunil Pumpwell, activist of a Hindu organization, who had been arrested in connection with this case, may be able to secure his release.
Reshma from Arikkady in Kasargod was in the final year degree of a law college in the city. She had come to know a person named Mohammed Iqbal Choudhary from Mankhurd, a suburb of Mumbai, five years back through Facebook. The two fell in love with each other eventually. Two years back, Iqbal came to the city, met Reshma, and promised to marry here. Reshma, without informing anyone including her family, had left to Mumbai, leaving behind a letter claiming that she was marrying on her own record.
Right-wing organizations, which treated this as a 'love Jihad' case, were actively following up. A few months back, Reshma's parents had visited Mumbai and brought her back to the city.
Reshma's husband had filed a case of kidnap against his in-laws, and sought production of Reshma before the high court, by filing habeas corpus petition. Mumbai police who came here, conducted searches for a few days and arrested an activist of Bajrang Dal.
When Reshma appeared in the high court on Monday, the judge personally subjected her to questioning and also spoke to her husband, Chaudhary. Reshma, who filed an affidavit in the court, dismissed the notion that she had been kidnapped. She said she was not a victim of any crime and that she had gone to her parental home as per her own volition.