With the connivance of CPM, Jihadi organisations take out a protest march into the High Court and threaten judges after the court nullified the marriage of a Hindu girl and Muslim boy after her conversion into Islam
T Satisan from Kochi
Some Muslim outfits, obviously known as extremist groups, under the banner of Muslim Coordination Council – MCC (Muslim Ekopana Samithi in Malayalam) carried out a march to the High Court of Kerala on May 29 to protest against the court’s order invalidating the marriage of a Hindu girl to a Muslim boy after her conversion to Islam. The court sent the girl to her home along with her parents. The march was stopped by the police about 500 metres off the high court complex but the protesters smashed the barricade and tried to march forward. Then police resorted to water cannon and then to tear gas. Lathicharge followed to disperse the angry mob. The leaders stated that eighteen workers were injured in lathi charge. They declared a district hartal in Ernakulam on May 29 to protest against police “atrocities” and to demand the withdrawal of the high court order. The eye witnesses inform that the protesters tried to attack the policemen with sticks and stones. The district hartal did not have much impact on the normal life there.
Even though a lot of hue and cry is heard among the Communists, Maoists, so-called human rights activists, Muslim outfits and, of course, all sorts of anti-RSS, anti-nationalist and anti-Modi circles, the court order is very significant in the current atmosphere, especially when the IS threat is looming large.
The Muslim protestors in their speeches blamed RSS for being the spirit behind the court order. They thought that Justice K Surendramohan, one of the two judges who heard the petition, (the other one was Justice K Abraham Mathew) was a Hindu. So, they applied their usual ridiculous logic that Surendramohan is a Hindu hence RSS man and therefore RSS agenda behind the court order, etc.
The name of the girl is Akhila, daughter of Asokan from Vaikkam, Kottayam district. She was a student of homoeopathy medical college in Salem, Tamil Nadu. Asokan filed a habeas corpus (HC) petition in Kerala high court as Akhila was missing from the hostel of the college where she was doing her internship. At that time she told the court that she left the house at her own will. She had joined an institution called “Sathyasarani” in Manjerry, Malappuram district for Islamic studies. The court permitted her to pursue her studies there and select her accommodation. A woman called Sainaba had come to the court with her. So, the court sent Akhila with that woman. The HC petition was obviously quashed.
After some time, the girl informed her father that she was going for shepherding. Asoka smelt a rat. He got worried about the forceful conversion of his daughter to Islam, pushing her to the fake wedding and taking her to Syria for enrolling into the terrorist movement of IS. He filed another HC. She came to the court on December 19, 2016, and the hearing was adjourned for couple of days, that was December 21. That day she came to the court accompanied by a young man saying that she got married to him. Court wondered how come it happened in a couple of days! Neither Akhila nor her counsel had mentioned to the court on May 19 that she was married. Then the court directed the state government to find out the details of the marriage which took place pending the petition before the court. State government pleader, on behalf of the DG of Police, and special prosecutor of NIA submitted their findings during the third week of May 2017. The final order of the two-member bench of the Kerala high court came in the wake of those findings.
The court found that Akhila was taken to Perinthalmanna and Manjerry, two places in the Muslim-majority Malappuram district for forceful conversion. It was also found that she was married to a Kollam district native and schemes were set to take her to Syria or elsewhere through Gulf and enrol her into a terrorist outfit. That is why the court invalidated her marriage and ordered her to go home with her father. Court took notice of different Muslim names Akhila assumed on various occasions. When Akhila came to the court on May 21 her counsel had submitted to the court that her parents had participated in the wedding, which the court found to be a false statement hence that wedding did not have the consent of Sharia Law. Her name was Hadia in the marriage-related documents. But conversion documents said her name as Asia. Some other documents said she was Adhia! Documents said, the groom was employed in Gulf. But, the man Shafin Jahan, a worker of SDPI and Campus Front, is the admin of the Whatsapp group of SDPI. Mansy Burakhi, an IS worker, was a member of this group. He was caught by the police from the Kanakamala camp (Thalsserry, Kannur district) of the extremist activists. Court explains that even though the girl had got married as per Islamic rites, it is court’s duty to stop her jumping into further dangers. Court says it is parens patriae justice, that is the ‘justice for those who are hapless.’ When she was under the patronage of the court it was illegal to get married sans informing it.
The Court exposed the activities of the religious institution which tried to befool it (court). It found the activities of the extremist outfits like SDPI, Popular Front, Campus Front, NDF and the religious extremist activities of them and their links with the IS like international terrorist groups. Court has exposed serious findings and directed to carry our further enquiries into the aforementioned activities. Still, Muslim groups allege that court invalidated the Sharia Law-based marriage.
The issue has turned an eye opener to thousands of non-Muslim parents in the state. At the same time, the state witnesses the scenario of all anti-Hindu and anti-nationalist and anti-national groups joining hands against the judiciary. Their chorus is to empower the anti-national forces, weaken the nationalist forces and to
destabilise the nation. Several media men are competing each other in this immoral endeavour.
The provocative march and the arrogant slogans raised by the MCC marchers were ignored by the mainstream media in Kerala. Most of the slogans could invite the contempt of court. They raised derogatory slogans against Justice Surendramohan. They shouted that the protest would enter his bedroom and kitchen; his official chair would be thrown away! There are reports that SDPI gen. secretary Ajmal Ismail and secretariat member Yahia Thangal were seen shouting from the top of the water cannon carrier. Political parties of both Congress and CPM fronts shut their eyes against these sort of anti-social protests. Media persons made it a point to confine the news to a short matter that ‘tension in the march’! Channels competed among themselves to establish that one’s constitutional right to get married to someone he or she likes is denied! They conveniently forgot the simple judicial system that if one is not satisfied with a court order there is ample scope for appealing. One does not see any effective step from the side of the ruling apparatus or police against the hooliganism Kochi witnessed on May 29. Just a case against 3000 people and that is all! No arrest of a single leader for speaking in provoking language against the high court.
