Love Jihad: Mother moves SC for NIA probe for missing daughter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Mother of a Nimisha Fathima, who was suspected to have joined the so-called Islamic State (IS), has moved the Supreme Court seeking a probe by a central agency into the religious conversions.

Attukal native Bindu, Nimisha’s mother, filed a petition at the apex court to implead in the case of the conversion of Hadiya (Akhila), to Islam from Hinduism recently. 

Ms Nimisha was reported missing since 2016, and she was suspected to be among 21 persons reportedly joined the IS in Afghanistan.

Ms Bindu said it was high time that an in-depth probe was conducted into the dubious religious conversions taking place in the state.

“Even a year after my daughter went missing, the investigators could not even trace her exact whereabouts. Hence I am also moving the Supreme Court so that more girls do not fall into such traps,” she told DC.

She said she got the last message from her daughter on June 4, 2016. But she did not reveal her location. “I still only had unconfirmed information that Nimisha is in Sri Lanka now and involved in the carpet business. Her husband’s family in Palakkad also maintains so. But I have no idea,” said Ms Bindu.

Ms Nimisha was reported missing in July 2016. Her husband Yahiya and his brother Isa and Isa's wife Maria, all converts from Christianity, were also among those disappeared. Even as the court earlier ordered an NIA investigation into the alleged presence of love jihad in the state following Hadiya’s case, the state government stated before the Supreme Court the other day that the probe by state police into the conversion did not reveal any offence that warranted a probe by the anti-terror sleuths.