The Supreme Court has given legal sanction to passive euthanasia in a landmark verdict permitting living will by patients on withdrawing medical support if they slip into irreversible coma. The top court said that directions and guidelines laid down by it and its directive shall remain in force till a legislation is brought on the issue. The CJI while reading out the judgment said that though there were four separate opinions of the bench but all the judges were unanimous that the living will should be permitted since a person cannot be allowed to continue suffering in a comatose state when he or she doesn t wish to live https://www.diigo.com/item/note/6dj09/d35b?k=9cb707806520796d5a562eeb142e2d73. The top court had in 2011 recognised passive euthanasia in Aruna Shanbaug case by which it had permitted withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from patients not in a position to make an informed decision. What is Passive euthanasia? Passive euthanasia is a condition where there is withdrawal of medical treatment with the deliberate intention to hasten the death of a terminally-ill patient. What is the ruling all about?The ruling stems from a petition filed by an NGO Common Cause who had approached the court seeking a direction for recognition of living will and contended that when a medical expert said that a person afflicted with terminal disease had reached a point of no return then she should be given the right to refuse being put on life support. How can a person be told that he/she does not have right to prevent torture on his body? Right to life includes right to die with dignity. A person cannot be forced to live on support of ventilator. Keeping a patient alive by artificial means against his/her wishes is an assault on his/her body the petition said. The Centre however had told the court that the government had in principle decided to decriminalise attempt to suicide which at present is an offence punishable by up to one year jail term under Section 309 of Indian Penal Code. What is a living will? A living will is a written document by way of which a patient can give his explicit instructions in advance about the medical treatment to be administered when he or she is terminally ill or no longer able to express informed consent. Passive euthanasia meanwhile is a condition where there is withdrawal of medical treatment with the deliberate intention to hasten the death of a terminally-ill patient. In 2011 the top court had recognised passive euthanasia in Aruna Shanbaug s case by which it had permitted withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from patients not in a position to make an informed decision. The Centre had opposed recognition of living will and said the consent for removal of artificial support system given by a patient may not be an informed one and without being aware of medical advancements. It had cited examples of various countries in disallowing creation of living will by patients. Chronology of events that led to SC recognising living will May 11 2005: SC takes note of PIL of NGO Common Cause seeking nod to allow terminally-ill persons to execute a living will for passive euthanasia. It seeks the Centre s response on the plea which seeks declaration of right to die with dignity as a Fundamental Right under Article 21 (right to life) of the Constitution. Jan 16 2006: SC allows Delhi Medical Council (DMC) to intervene and asks it to file documents on passive euthanasia. Apr 28: Law Commission suggests a draft bill on passive euthanasia and says such pleas be made to HCs which should decide after taking experts views. Jan 31 2007: SC asks parties to file documents. Mar 7 2011: SC on a separate plea on behalf of Aruna Shanbaug allows passive euthanasia for the nurse lying in vegetative state at a hospital in Mumbai. Jan 23 2014: A three-judge bench led by then CJI P Sathasivam starts final hearing in the case. Feb 11: DMC files copy of proceedings of International Workshop for Policy Statement on Euthanasia in India and SC reserves verdict. Feb 25: SC cites inconsistencies in earlier verdicts on passive euthanasia including the one given in the Shanbaug case and refers the PIL to a Constitution bench. July 15: A five-judge bench commences hearing on the plea issues notices to all states and UTs and appoints senior advocate T R Andhyarujina as an amicus curiae. He dies during the pendency of the case. Feb 15 2016: Centre says that it is deliberating the issue. Oct 11 2017: Five-judge Constitution bench led by CJI Dipak Misra hears arguments and reserves the verdict. March 9 2018: SC recognises living will made by terminally-ill patients for passive euthanasia and lays down guidelines on procedures to be adopted for it.
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed passive euthanasia or withholding medical treatment to allow a terminally ill patient to die. The court said human beings have the right to die with dignity ANI reported. The five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said passive euthanasia is permissible with guidelines. The bench said life support can be withdrawn only after a statutory medical board declares a patient incurable. The top court also sanctioned living wills documents by which patients tell doctors what kind of medical treatment they would like in case of a serious illness. It issued guidelines to govern the execution of a living will and administering passive euthanasia in the absence of living wills.A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra passed the order allowing passive #Euthanasia with guidelines ANI (@ANI) March 9 2018 The court was hearing a petition filed by the NGO Common Cause which sought direction to recognise living wills. The petition contended that when a medical expert says that a person with a terminal disease was not curable the patient should be given the right to refuse being put on life support.The petitioner had argued that the right to die peacefully and with dignity is part of the Right to Life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.During a hearing in October 2017 the Centre had argued against allowing living wills on the grounds that they could be misused. The government only conceded that such documents may be one of many factors that a board of doctors might consider in allowing passive euthanasia. Euthanasia may be active or passive. Active euthanasia involves giving a person a lethal substance to help end his or her life. It is illegal in India and amounts to murder.
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The Maharashtra government argued against the Supreme Court ordering a probe into the death of judge BH Loya who was dealing with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case saying it would destroy the credibility of the judiciary forever. Is the judiciary in such a sad state that it dances to one man? Then we might as well wind it up senior advocate Harish Salve told a three-judge bench led by CJI Dipak Misra. Scurrilous allegations have been made against several judges including a former CJI of the Madras high court in this context he argued. Should the court order a probe the judges will be examined as co-conspirators in a murder. Are they conspirators in a murder? Is it conceivable that one politician is doing all these things? If the court were to order a probe they will be questioned for murder. The system will be condemned forever. BJP chief Amit Shah was an accused in the case. He was discharged by Loya s successor. The CBI is yet to file an appeal against the discharge. The ongoing trial in the case has fallen through with several witnesses turning hostile.
The Supreme Court has set to rest the controversy surrounding the marriage of Akhila alias Hadiya to Shefin Jehan but its nod to National Investigation Agency (NIA) to continue its probe into the alleged links of the Muslim youth with extremist outfits will keep alive the debate on love jihad triggered by the inter-faith marriage. Hindu organisations have cited the apex court decision on 8 March to keep the investigation open as a clear admission of the existence of love jihad in Kerala. They had coined the term to describe several cases of conversion of non-Muslims to Islam in the 1990s.File image of Hadiya. Reuters The Hindu bodies had claimed that love jihad was part of a well-organised racket that hires young Muslim men to lure Hindu girls by feigning love for the purpose of conversion. It assumed the jihadi dimension after five neo-converts landed in IS territory on the Afghan-Syria border in October 2016. The issue triggered communal frenzy after the Sangh Parivar took it up. Even though the campaign spearheaded by the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) combine was dismissed as part of their political strategy to create a communal division in the state a recent case involving a 25-year-old woman hailing from Pathanamthitta district and settled in Gujarat has forced a rethinking in political circles. The woman alleged that a Muslim youth from Kannur who tricked her into marriage had tried to take her to Syria from Saudi Arabia. She had met the man identified as Mohammed Riyas while studying in Bengaluru in 2014. Riyaz who is an active member of Popular Front of India (PFI) a fundamentalist outfit carrying out conversions in Kerala had taken her forcibly to Saudi Arabia using forged documents. The woman said she was locked up in a room when she resisted his plans to take her to Syria. She was rescued with the help of some NRIs after she managed to contact her parents back home. The high court has referred the case to the NIA for investigation. Two persons who facilitated the marriage have been arrested in connection with the incident. The NIA is already investigating the migration of 21 youths from the northern districts of Kasargod and Palakkad to the Afghan-Syrian border in July 2016. They included one Hindu and four Christians who were converted to Islam. The anti-terrorist probe agency has already booked 16 persons in connection with the alleged IS recruitment and the trial in the first case involving 15 persons from Kasargod has already begun in the NIA court at Kochi. The main accused in the case are Abdul Abdulla Rashid and Yasmeen Mohammed Zahid of Bihar. The chargesheet filed in January 2017 named Rashid as the main conspirator who motivated a number of youths from Kasaragod to join the Islamic State along with their families. It said that Abdulla had raised funds from abroad and transferred the money to Yasmeen who used it for propagating the ideology of violent jihad. The Kerala High Court had ordered a police investigation into the Hadiya case after Shefin informed the court on 21 December 2016 that he intended to take his wife to Muscat where he worked. Hadiya s father KM Ashokan had earlier expressed suspicion that Shefin had married his daughter for the purpose of taking her to the IS camp in Syria. In its interim report on 6 January 2017 Kerala Police said that Shefin was an active member of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) the political arm of PFI and was one among 35-40 administrators of the party s Facebook page along with Manseed Buraq who was earlier arrested in a case connecting him with IS. The police informed the court that Jahan was also an accused in two police cases including a case related to a political clash. Shefin did not hide his involvement with SDPI in the counter affidavit he filed in the high court but denied any connection with Manseed Buag who was expelled from SDPI after his link with IS was exposed. The NIA was handed over the probe into the Hadiya case by Supreme Court after Shefin approached it in August 2017 with a plea to quash the 24 May high court verdict annulling his marriage to Hadiya. The findings of the agency submitted to the apex court in a sealed cover are not known. However Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh appearing for the agency informed the apex court that NIA s investigation had revealed a strong pattern of Hindu women being systematically indoctrinated and induced into conversion and marriage by radical outfits. The agency suspected external forces behind Hadiya s conversion into Islam since her mentor was found involved in other love jihad cases being investigated by it. The NIA had selected 32 out of 89 cases referred to it by the Kerala Police for detailed scrutiny. NIA s preliminary investigation revealed PFI women s wing chief Sainaba who mentored Hadiya as the common link in several cases. The agency found her involved in luring young Hindu girls into embracing Islam with the help of activists linked to Muslim outfits like PFI SDPI and Markazul Hidaya Sathyasarani. Shefin s counsel advocate Haris Beeran said the facts in the Hadiya case did not show any element of so-called love jihad since Hadiya had married Shefin much after she embraced Islam. She found him in a matrimonial site and married after due interactions. He told Firstpost whether there is anything incriminating against his client in the NIA probe will be known only after the court s full verdict will be available. The court had delivered only the operating part on Thursday. He said that the court may have taken the NIA probe findings into consideration while restoring the marriage of Hadiya and Shefin. Social activist Rahul Easwar who had interacted with Hadiya while she was in her parents custody also does not believe the involvement of love jihad in Hadiya s case. He doubts even any force behind the conversion. Rahul who is the grandson of Sabarimala hill shrine supreme priest told Firstpost that he found Hadiya to be a simple woman who had developed a genuine affinity towards Islam after her interactions with Muslim friends while studying. He also takes the Sangh Parivar propaganda about love jihad with a pinch of salt saying that they were blowing the issue out of proportion by citing a few isolated cases. However he finds substance in the allegation that there could be a force behind some conversions. Rahul is not ready to blame non-Hindus alone for this. Muslim and Christian organisations are able to attract Hindus into their faith because they are vulnerable to conversion. A large section in the Hindu community are disappointed with the neglect and discrimination they suffer. If the conversion lobby in other religion is able to lure them with better prospects they cannot be blamed he said. Social critic J Devika agrees with Rahul. She said most of the Hindus converts belonged to suppressed sections in the community. She told Scroll that the Hindu upper caste society still considered the lower Ezhava community with contempt in the state. Devika an associate professor at the Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthapuram pointed out that Hadiya s parents belonged to Ezhava community that is officially categorised as Other Backward Classes while the family of another convert Athira is part of Scheduled Caste Vannan community. She believes that the Sangh Parivar has been running the love jihad propaganda to mask the caste divide in Hindu society. They have realised that this caste division in the Hindu society is hurting its political plans. Love jihad is their ploy to mask the caste division and reap electoral dividends in Kerala Devika said. BJP leaders say their campaign against love jihad was not aimed at maligning a particular community. Party spokesman JR Padmakumar said they have been airing their concern in the wake of arrest of several people in connection with the recruitment of youths to extremist outfits including IS in the recent past.
Written by Shaju Philip | Updated: August 27 2017 7:56 pm Hadiya Related News Mission Kerala on its mind BJP gears up for Chengannur bypollKerala govt asks authorities to stop human blood ritualKannur murder: Kerala HC orders CBI probe hours after CM Vijayan Pinarayi says not necessary Annulled by HC Shefin Jahan s marriage to a Hindu convert is being investigated by NIA. But Akhila s journey to become Hadiya began long before she met him. SHAJU PHILIP tells her story THE Kottayam house where lives the woman whose conversion to Islam is now the subject of a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has long battled matters of faith. The 24-year-old s father is a sworn atheist her mother a staunch Hindu. K M Akhila now Hadiya often found herself torn between the two. Confined in the three-room house at T V Puram for the past three months on court orders Hadiya has not been allowed to step out or meet anyone. Policemen watch her every move and monitor the neighbourhood. Her uncle Suresh Babu a local Congress leader says Despite several rounds of counselling Hadiya is sticking to her Islamic faith. Now she is asking her parents to embrace Islam. Akhila s aunt Ganga blames her parents Ashokan used to chide wife Ponnamma over her religious beliefs. The daughter was confused. In the only visual of Hadiya to emerge from inside in a controversial video made by an activist she can be seen standing in a doorway. She pleads Is this what my life would be like now? Akhila is the only daughter of K M Ashokan 56 a retired Armyman and Ponnamma. T V Puram in Kerala s Kottayam district is a quiet middle-class Hindu neighbourhood and Akhila studied at the Government Higher Secondary School here. Relatives say she struggled with studies as she entered her senior years. After clearing Class 12 in her second attempt she applied for admission to the private Sivaraj Homeopathy Medical College & Research Institute in Salem Tamil Nadu. Suresh Babu says he helped her get a seat through an agent . In August 2010 Akhila 18 boarded a train to Salem 400 km away. READ THE STORY IN MALAYALAM Of the 25 students in her course four were from Kerala. Akhila quickly bonded with the four Divya Archana Rajan Dilna and Jaseela Aboobacker as well as Jaseela s younger sister Faseena who had joined another course at the same institute. Six months later the six took up a house on rent together moving out of the hostel. This was the first time Akhila had had Muslim friends or Muslim acquaintances. Jaseela who is now a homeopathic doctor says Akhila would watch her and Faseena as they offered namaz five times a day. Akhila s interest surprised her she adds. We thought she was an atheist like her father. When our roommates went to a temple they would have to coerce Akhila to come along. Soon Akhila borrowed a Quran in Malayalam from Jaseela to read. She started posting verses from it on Facebook. She said it was better to be associated with a religion than be an atheist Jaseela says adding Akhila shared everything with her mother. Archana who was part of their group says one development proved crucial. Akhila failed in the first-semester exam. Heartbroken she wanted to quit the course. It was Jaseela who counselled Akhila to stay back. After that they grew even closer says Archana of Aryambavu in Palakkad. Akhila now started listening to Islamic sermons on her phone downloaded from the Internet. Soon she had questions about Islam that Jaseela and Faseena found difficult to answer. Hoping to clear her doubts Jaseela put Akhila in touch with her father Parayil Aboobacker. Aboobacker who runs a furniture business near Perinthalmanna admits he talked to her. In 2011 Akhila was home on leave during Ramzan and observed a fast. Later for Eid-ul-Fitr she joined Jaseela and Faseena at their home in Angadippuram in Malappuram with their other Hindu friends. Once Akhila disclosed her intention to convert. I told her her father is an atheist and her locality has no Muslims. I gave her Upanishads (from his house) to read. I urged her to finish her studies says Aboobacker who is in his 60s. Jaseela says they started getting worried when Akhila started posting questions on Islam on the Internet. One day when she posted on Facebook the verse Every soul shall taste death it got a like from a Kannur youth Shanib studying MBA in Bengaluru. He introduced her to his cousin Sherin Shahana whose husband Fazal Musthafa had pursued Islamic Studies in Yemen. The couple were at the time in Mangaluru where Musthafa worked at a mosque. As Akhila started communicating regularly with Shahana and Musthafa Jaseela says they warned her over such Facebook friendships. We told her about people on social media who have an agenda to trap Hindu women. But she ignored us. According to police and court documents Akhila told the couple about her desire to convert and that accordingly they came to Kochi on September 10 2015. Police say Akhila got an affidavit attested from an advocate in Kochi saying she was living as a Muslim without compulsion and wanted to take on the name Aasiya. While Akhila kept this conversion bid a secret relatives says Ponnamma knew of her daughter s growing leanings towards Islam. Matters came to a head in November 2015 when Akhila s grandfather died and she refused to join the 40th-day rituals. Says uncle Suresh Babu We thought she was menstruating. But she told us she was following Islam and could not do Hindu rituals. Later we heard she had brought Islamic literature home fasted and offered prayers five times a day. Babu says Akhila argued that Islam was a good religion compared to Hinduism. When we scolded her she urged her parents too to embrace Islam says her uncle. Ashokan and Ponnamma refuse to talk to the media. With her rift with them widening Akhila left home on January 1 2016 apparently to return to college in Salem. Instead she went to her friend s Malappuram home. Says Aboobacker Akhila was on her way to Mangaluru to Shahana and Musthafa. They wanted her to stop studying and end relations with her family. Jaseela told me if Akhila goes to Mangaluru we would not get her back. Hence she forced her to come to our house. Aboobacker says Akhila however stuck to her decision to convert and the next day (January 2) he took her to an advocate in Perinthalmanna. She again got an attested affidavit saying she was embracing Islam of her own will. On Akhila s insistence to learn more about Islam Aboobacker says he took her to two Islamic institutions in Kozhikode. Both refused to admit Akhila instantly and so they turned to Sathya Sarani the only institute in Kerala that offers a two-month residential programme for new converts to Islam. Sathya Sarani too reportedly refused to admit her for want of proper documents and Aboobacker brought Akhila back home. The next day he says they had a fight and he sent her back to the Salem college. An official at the Salem college refused to share any details. We can t help you. We have no clue about that student he said. Crime Branch Superintendent of Police K V Santhosh who headed the High Court-ordered probe into Akhila s conversion says the friendship with the Mangaluru couple didn t last long. Akhila did not like their extreme orthodoxy he says. The couple later moved to Saudi Arabia. Shefin Jahan and his wife When Akhila returned to college in Salem on January 6 2016 she wore a headscarf creating a stir. One of her classmates told her father and an anxious Ashokan started calling her. Akhila however refused to return home and instead again went to Jaseela s house. Says Aboobacker I informed Ashokan that his daughter wanted to convert. I told him I would accompany her home. He told me he would pick her up from my house. Before the father arrived though Sathya Sarani members reached Aboobacker s house to get her. The president of a women s group National Women s Front A S Zainaba also came reportedly at the behest of Sathya Sarani. But Aboobacker says he did not allow them to take Akhila. I asked Akhila to go to Salem. So when Ashokan came she was no longer there says Aboobacker. Ashokan registered a case at a local police station and also moved a habeas corpus petition in the high court. Aboobacker was arrested and jailed for two days. Later it was Zainaba who produced Akhila in the high court on January 19 2016. The court allowed Akhila to stay with Zainaba and also let her attend the Islamic course at Sathya Sarani. Zainaba who once worked with the Sathya Sarani says the institute had sought her help to ascertain Akhila s intentions. Akhila attended a course at Sathya Sarani and returned to Zainaba s house as Hadiya . Now Hadiya also started talking about marriage hoping to find some support system. At her behest I registered her name on a matrimonial website says Zainaba. A police officer says the marriage plans were the tipping point for Hadiya s father. He says Ashokan being an atheist was not as concerned about his daughter s conversion until then. The news of Kerala Muslims leaving to join the Islamic State along with their wives a few of them converts worried him. He told his daughter about his fears. Hadiya vowed she would not go anywhere. But on August 16 2016 Ashokan filed a writ petition in the high court alleging there was a move to take his daughter out of India. Police sources say Ashokan s fears are baseless merely the concerns of a father about losing his only child. Hadiya did not even have a passport points out an officer. In response to her father s plea Hadiya was produced before court on August 22. Again she refused to go with her parents and said she wanted to stay with Zainaba. However the court sent her to a hostel in Kochi. On September 29 at the next hearing she was allowed to return to Zainaba. Shefin Jahan a graduate in Islamic Studies and working as a manager with a firm in Muscat since January 2015 was also registered on the matrimonial website. Shefin s parents Shajahan and Rejila Beevi originally from Kollam settled in Muscat nearly a decade ago but his father recently set up a business in Tamil Nadu. His sister Shehla Jahan is a nurse in Muscat. Shefin came to Kerala in November 2016 on a two-month leave and planned to get married during that time. Since he has some links with the trust that runs Sathya Sarani the wedding with Hadiya was arranged quickly. On December 19 the two got married at Zainaba s house in Malappuram. The marriage was not fake Shefin stresses to charges that it was just a ploy to take Hadiya abroad. I invited Ashokan too he didn t turn up. My friends and relatives came. We registered the marriage at the local panchayat. Dy SP Perinthalmanna M P Mohanachandran who probed the case initially also found nothing suspicious in the marriage. It was an arranged marriage attended by the local masjid committee representatives. They invited over 50 people. They hoped that after the wedding Hadiya could be produced in court by her own husband instead of Zainaba he says. SP Santhosh says they found no criminal cases against Shefin but for one related to campus politics. We didn t find any suspicious money transactions either he adds. Shefin admits that while in college he was a member of the Campus Front the student outfit of the radical Muslim group Popular Front of India (PFI) and ran the Facebook page of the PFI s political arm SDPI (Social Democratic Party of India). One of the followers of that FB page Mancy Buraqui was arrested last year for suspected IS links. Shefin says Buraqui was removed from the page when this was revealed. The PFI has now engaged advocates to fight Shefin s case. Accusing police of trying to depict him as a terrorist he says Last month I got a letter from the regional passport office asking why I had suppressed four criminal cases against me. But I only had one criminal case relating to a political clash on campus. On December 21 two days after their wedding Hadiya returned to court with Shefin. But the court sent Hadiya to the hostel again and ordered Shefin not to have any contact with her. They weren t allowed to talk at subsequent hearings either. Then on May 24 2017 the high court nullified the marriage. Ordering a probe it said A girl aged 24 is weak and vulnerable capable of being exploited in many ways. The Markazul Hidaya of Manjeri in Malappuram district is better known as Sathya Sarani. It is the only institute in Kerala that offers a two-month residential programme for new converts to Islam At the same time police officers understand where fears such as these spring from. Conversion efforts in Kerala are under investigation particularly in the light of youth joining IS. There are some who consider men marrying into another community heroes says an officer adding that often their hands are tied as the two parties are adults. Another officer associated with the case says Helping a convert is seen as an act that will pave the way to heaven. So an aspirant for Islam sees a battery of supporters. Muhammed Roshan a researcher on the Sociology of Religion at IIT-Madras points out that conversions to Islam in India have largely happened through social interactions. Unlike the Christian missionary movements messages of Islam have transferred through interactions with Muslims at social settings As this happened gradually it never disturbed the social eco-system he says adding that what has changed is emergence of Dammaj Salafi groups in Kerala as opposed to Sufi who believe in puritan Islam. Hindu activist Rahul Easwar who met Hadiya and her parents recently and released photos and a video that the family has objected to says both Hindu and Muslim groups are trying to cash in on the controversy. Easwar who has expressed dismay at Hadiya being kept in State confinement adds that it is difficult to demarcate between conversion and forced conversion and that there is no doubt that a concerted lobby is behind conversion. However Easwar who belongs to the family of Sabarimala priests says the reason why Hindus are getting attracted to Islam is the spiritual vacuum in the Hindu community. Hadiya he says felt a lack of belonging in the Hindu community . It s here that organisations like the Kochi-based Arsha Vidya Samajam step in. Started in 1999 K R Manoj the head of the institution is leading a movement to reconvert youth mostly Hindu women back to the religion. Earlier this year he says some of his volunteers had visited Hadiya at her parents request to counsel her to give up Islam. However he says Hadiya was one of the few projects we failed she was very arrogant and adamant during the counselling sessions . Since 2009 we have reconverted some 3 000 youth mostly young women to Hindusim he says. While most of these cases were of Hindu-Muslim conversions about 300 were of Hindu women who had converted to Christianity he says. Amidst the charges of forced conversion in the Hadiya case stands Markazul Hidaya of Manjeri in Malappuram district better known as Sathya Sarani. It is run by a trust that has leaders of the PFI among its members. In July 2010 then Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan had accused the PFI charged in many violent attacks of promoting Islamisation of Kerala . Manager Muhammed Rafi says no conversions happen at the institute only religious teaching. We don t convert anyone contrary to public perception. There is nothing mysterious here he says. When a new convert approaches the institute Rafi adds their antecedents are checked. Besides they have to furnish an affidavit attested by a notary that they have embraced Islam of their own free will. The manager also points out that police keep a close watch on the institute s functioning and frequently visit it to check up on missing women . Whenever anyone is tracked to our institute we duly produce them before police. Police sources say that during a recent inspection 52 inmates were found at the institute. Of them 28 were Hindu converts 16 Christian converts and eight Muslims. According to the institute last year 447 people attended courses at the college. This year the figure stands at 264 so far. Parayil Aboobacker the father of Hadiya s friends Jaseela and Faseena In a petition filed by Shefin challenging the high court verdict the Supreme Court last week ordered an NIA probe under the supervision of retired judge R V Raveendran. It agreed with the NIA contention that the Hadiya case did not appear to be an isolated one and compared it to the Blue Whale Challenge. It s been eight months now that he talked to his wife Shefin says. She has been produced before the court several times since but I was not allowed to speak to her. Her family and police don t let me meet her and she doesn t have a phone says Shefin who is staying in Chandanathopu 12 km from Kollam with an uncle. Forced to stay back he has lost his job in Muscat. SP Santhosh wonders what a new investigation would find. Our probe didn t find anything to make out a case against anyone At no stage is there evidence of coercion he says. The officer adds Hadiya gave several statements that she became a Muslim on her own. As long as she sticks to that no case can be framed Now let the NIA probe. But Shefin hasn t lost hope he says. He shows a recent message Hadiya sent to his phone from her mother s mobile. It reads Help me hadiya@akhila. Timeline: August 2010: Akhila leaves home to join a homeopathy medical college in Salem Tamil Nadu; becomes friends with two Muslim sisters September 10 2015: Akhila makes first attempt to convert gets an affidavit attested from an advocate in Kochi saying she was living as a Muslim without anyone s compulsion and wanted to take on the name Aasiya November 2015: Refuses to join Hindu rituals at home on death of her grandfather January 1 2016: Leaves home for college but instead goes to Jaseena and sister Faseela s home in Malappuram January 2: At her insistence says Jaseena s father P Aboobacker he takes her to an advocate where she registers an affidavit saying she was embracing Islam of her own will January 5: Aboobacker who says he tried to dissuade her refuses to help Akhila further sends her back to college January 6: Akhila attends college in Islamic dress. Her family learns about it. She approaches Islamic learning centre Sathya Sarani January 8: shokan files case against Aboobacker January 11: Aboobacker is arrested and faces charges of fomenting communal enmity released after 2 days January 12: Ashokan moves the first habeas corpus in high court January 18: Akhila is produced before court refuses to go with parents January 21 to March 21: Akhila alias Hadiya stays at Sathya Sarani to learn about Islam August 17: Ashokan moves a fresh writ petition in high court alleging there is a move to take his daughter to Syria to fight for Islamic State August 22: Court sends Hadiya to a hostel in Kochi August 26: Hadiya gives an affidavit to court that she embraced Islam of her will December 19: Hadiya gets married to Shefin Jahan of Kollam December 21: HC criticises the marriage sends Hadiya back to hostel. Tells Jahan not to meet her May 24 2017: Kerala HC nullifies the marriage sends Hadiya back to her parents puts her under police surveillance August 16: On Jahan s appeal against HC order Supreme Court orders NIA probe With inputs from Arun Janardhanan For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Man taken into custody for making death threat to Kerala CM Malli s tragedy: On death loss and failed government schemes in Kerala s only tribal block Tags: Kerala CCongress The CorruptMar 9 2018 at 11:08 pmThe Supreme court judgment seems too naive. As everything in black and white. Tis lady on several occasions gave false information to courts . Secondly se was put into islamic matrimonials after indoctrisin her by a sady organisation which runs a racket for converting hindu girls. Also it as been proved now the Oman returned man did not selected the girl online...they were introduced by the same shady oranistion. And lastly the man who is associated with extremist organisation...suddenly found highly paid supreme court lawyers appearing for him. Who is paying their fees!(0)(0) Reply PPapaMar 8 2018 at 3:32 pmCongratulations ! May you have a prosperous journey ahead.(0)(1) ReplyUuriMar 9 2018 at 9:24 pmIslam is more popular as it is easy to understand and follow. Hinduism is complex and one needs to be mature to understand as Hinduism is against concepts like religion which petty minds cannot comprehend(0)(0) Reply IISLAMIC CONVERSION FACTORIESNov 28 2017 at 9:11 amISLAM CONVERSION FACTORIES----------------Search on UTUBE OPERATION JIHAD MAFIA by Aaj Tak and OPERATION CONVERSION FACTORY by India Today............and see urself how ORGANIZED conversion rackets are being run by islamic states in India.............Funding for these conversions and love jihad comes from Saudi Pakistan and underworld......... Underworld earns huge money through its agents in BOLLYWOOD and then route that money for conversions killing and love jihad in India.......Islamic organizations guide and teach muslims how to approach and target Hindu women they also provide them funds and training for this........by this method on one side we decrease Hindu population and on other side we increase our islamic population.......They say if we marry a Hindu woman we 1st convert that woman and after that all the childrens are also muslims....(3)(7) Reply RRam SekharNov 28 2017 at 12:08 amThis is not conversion. This is psychological grooming. Following are the steps involved: Steps 1 - 4 - GROOMING Girl has doubts about her own religion. Steps 5 - 6 - CONVERT Girl is now in deep emotional stress. Forced to defend her decision. Change in perspective strong. Steps 7 - 9 - END GAME Most girls picked are soft. So they accept their new fate with no questions. They now attack their previous religion. Society thinks they have always acted on her free will. 1) Identify soft individuals and be friends with them 2) Constantly tell about how their religion is bad and how ISS LaaM is the best 3) Scare them saying they are going to hell 4) Start taking them to Dawaa keeping it secret from Parents 5) Separate emotionally from Parents. Reduce trust in family 6) Convert in secrecy from parents 7) Scare saying if they go back they will go to hell. Threaten if needed. 8) Tell that parents family will ask them to leave ISS LaaM. 9) Turn them against parents(16)(2) Reply Shaju PulloorAug 28 2017 at 12:43 pmThe Quran provides an environment where people can fully enjoy freedom of thought and freedom of religion and allows people to live by the faith and values they believe in. According to Islam everyone has the right to live freely by his beliefs whatever they may be. Anyone who wants to support a church a synagogue or a mosque must be free to do so. In this sense freedom of religion or freedom of belief is one of the basic tenets of Islam. There is always freedom of religion wherever the moral values of the Qur an prevail. That is why Muslims also treat Jews and Christians described in the Qur an as the People of the Book with great justice love and compassion. God says in the Qur an: God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes or from being just towards them. God loves those who are just. (Surat al-Mumtahana 8)(11)(23) ReplyGGuest4321Nov 28 2017 at 7:54 amFirst and foremost Humanity and all religions say that we should not tell lies. your comment does not withstand that scrutiny. ISIS are representatives of Islam and we all know what they do. Muslims should start accepting that there is a problem in their belief and should work to eradicate those fundamentalist ideas. Sermons like above will only draw dis-belief from everyone when the reality is that most terrorists world wide are muslims.(8)(4) ReplyKkurtNov 28 2017 at 9:40 pmIs is do not represent Islam. Get the fact right. Rss. Baj rang Dallas. Shiv sena goons represent hindu for sure. People are not stupid enough to convert after all negativity spread about Islam by people like you. Yet the fastest growing religion by conversion. Facts are there you can t fool people.(4)(3)Ridhima TiwariDec 2 2017 at 10:02 pmhaha What a joke!(2)(0) ReplyRidhima TiwariDec 2 2017 at 10:02 pmHaha ! what a joke you just wrote here.(2)(0) ReplyUuriMar 9 2018 at 9:26 pmislam is for petty minds hinduism requires deep study which most people can t even after maturity(0)(0) Reply Load More Comments
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today took umbrage against a senior lawyer for casting aspersions on judges that they were only asking searching questions to those who brought the Judge BH Loya death case before it and not to the Maharashtra government.Disapproving such remarks a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud said that judges were guided by their conscience and heart in delivering justice and they do not need any certificate from anyone. We will ask questions what we want to satisfy our conscience. We don t have to show a veneer of justice to you. Justice is in our hearts and minds. We don t want a certificate least of all from an arguing counsel the bench said.The strong remarks came when senior advocate Dushyant Dave said the court was not asking questions to another senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for Maharashtra when he was arguing and he had to face all the queries.Justice Chandrachud replied that fortunately in our judicial system the judges have to agree with the lawyers and not vice versa . Unfortunately in our system you don t have to agree with us but we have to agree with you sometimes a person is so involved in the arguments that he forgets who is a judge and who is a lawyer he said.Senior advocate Dave replied that there are always two ways to look at something and one should stand for the cause.To this Justice Chandrachud said No leniency to justice is being imparted. Justice lies in our conscience. During the hearing the bench also clarified that it cannot direct the state to file affidavit and the documents once produced by the Maharashtra government can be equally good. We will not allow the state to correct the anomaly if any by way of affidavit. If there is anything wrong it will be dealt according to the law it said.Senior advocate Dave then said that he can t file contempt or seek perjury proceedings against the state as the documents are not filed on affidavit.The bench said that he (Dave) can still file contempt and seek initiation of perjury proceedings against the state in case of any false documents.While referring to Ravi Bhavan where judge Loya was staying the night before he died senior advocate Dave said that it was just at a five-minutes distance from the chief justice s bungalow and questioned why his car could not be called to take him to the hospital. If the chief justice cannot take care of his judiciary then he is not fit to be chief justice the senior advocate said.This statement led to heated exchange between senior advocates Dave and Rohatgi who objected to the statement of the former saying he cannot accuse everybody. This case is mala fide based on an article in media. The article was a case of yellow journalism. The article was never published for three years but once a petition challenging the discharge of accused in Sohrabuddin Sheikh case was dismissed by the apex court the article surfaces senior advocate Rohatgi said.Senior advocate Dave questioned why did the CBI then not file the appeal against the discharge of BJP president Amit Shah in the case.Senior advocate Rohatgi replied these are all absurd allegations and the CBI had filed the appeals against some of the accused in the case.Senior advocate Dave then moved on and argued that the report of intelligence commissioner has to be rejected and does not inspire confidence due to various anomaly.At the fag end of the hearing advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the Centre for Public Interest Litigation said two reports (histopathology and the ECG) of judge Loya were not filed by the State in the documents filed before the court.Advocate Bhushan said he had personally met many cardiologists who had seen these reports and had ruled out that judge Loya had died of a heart attack.He pointed out the expert opinion of Dr. Upendra Kaul former professor of cardiology at AIIMS and Padma Shri awardee who had virtually ruled out a heart attack as the cause of death on the basis of the histopathology and ECG reports.Advocate Bhushan further pointed out that the doctor at Dande Hospital and Meditrina Hospital in Nagpur had noted tall T-waves in the ECG in their statements filed with the State.The arguments remained inconclusive and would continue tomorrow.On March 5 the top court had said questions should not be raised over the change in the judge hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in Bombay High Court as the change in the roster was a routine affair which is in accordance with the established tradition there. CommentsJudge Loya who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case had allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague s daughter.The bench is hearing batch of pleas including those filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala and Maharashtra-based BS Lone seeking an independent probe into judge Loya s death.
Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: March 9 2018 7:33 am CBI Judge B H Loya Taking a strong view of the petitioner s argument that it has not put forth questions to the state of Maharashtra in connection with the plea seeking an independent probe into the death of judge B H Loya the Supreme Court said that it will ask questions it wants and that justice lies in its conscience . The observations came after senior advocate Dushyant Dave counsel for Bombay https://wanelo.co/kkdigital Lawyers Association told the bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud that while the court has put many questions to him and also offered alternative possibilities it has not put forth such questions to senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi representing Maharashtra. It is a matter of great regret that the judiciary has unwittingly withdrawn. This report deserves to be thrown out in the dustbin. Your lordships should have been more harsher. There were no searching questions that were put to the state It troubles me that your lordships have put many questions and offered alternative possibilities during my arguments but have not put forth such questions to Rohatgi Dave said. To this Justice Chandrachud replied We will ask the questions we want. Justice lies in our conscience. We do not want a certificate from an arguing counsel. Concluding his argument Dave asked the bench as to why it has not issued notices to Maharashtra government which has filed the discreet inquiry report containing the testimonies of four lower court judges who accompanied judge Loya. This court has issued notices in the Sunanda Pushkar case to the police. That is also a case where the death occurred in unnatural circumstances But here your lordships have not issued any notices this report does not inspire confidence Dave argued. Justice Khanwilkar responded That case is different the police was already required to file a report several days before the said order but it had failed to do so. Justice Chandrachud said: The filing of affidavit can never improve the document or evidence Any order for further investigation that we may pass shall depend on the adequacy or inadequacy of the evidence the state has filed before this court. Dave asked In the absence of affidavits how can we attack the veracity of the report on the grounds of perjury or contempt? Justice Chandrachud replied Any documents that have been filed across the bar are a part of the record Proceedings for contempt and perjury shall still lie. During the arguments Dave questioned the veracity of the discreet inquiry report and said Soon after the article published government ordered the inquiry the commissioner of state intelligence sought permission from Chief Justice to record statement of four judges. How did he know who were the four judges? The report mentions only judge Barde The commissioner did not step out. Did not see any document or meet any doctor to collect evidence. This report does not inspire any confidence the state wanted to pre-empt an independent inquiry. And if this petition is dismissed the state would achieve that purpose. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App Tags: Judge Loya death supreme court KKalyanMar 9 2018 at 6:55 pmI wonder when SOME SC Judges will appear to be NOT biased anymore and do NOT question SELECTIVELY one party and look pre-biased?(0)(0) Reply suneil nayagamMar 9 2018 at 2:12 pm Normally people go to judges for justice. For the first time but I saw 4 Justices of the Supreme Court go to the people Rahul Gandhi at Lee Kwan Yu Singapore(14)(2) Reply PParthMar 9 2018 at 1:16 pmAdvocate Dushyant Dave at the top of his legal acumen.(16)(4) Reply SS. Javed.Mar 9 2018 at 1:14 pmIf justice is not done God will do the justice one day or other. All those who are to defame or cover up some body for one reason or other will be definitely punished in this world as well as hereafter. Nobody will then have power to interfere provide relief. The torment of God is very very severe beyond anybody s imagination.(3)(1) Reply AAbhishek YadavMar 9 2018 at 12:39 pmThe histopathology report has revealed narrowing of arteries and congestion in the brain but the heart tissue and muscles have shown to be normal. When there is a heart attack one part of the heart dies and that would have been appa in the microscopic exam...I have filed my own affidavit in this behalf as I had spoken to the doctors in person who were not willing to come on record he continued.(8)(2) Reply Load More Comments
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed passive euthanasia or withholding medical treatment to allow a terminally ill patient to die. The court said human beings have the right to die with dignity ANI reported. The five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said passive euthanasia is permissible with guidelines. The bench said life support can be withdrawn only after a statutory medical board declares a patient incurable. The top court also sanctioned living wills documents by which patients tell doctors what kind of medical treatment they would like in case of a serious illness. It issued guidelines to govern the execution of a living will and administering passive euthanasia in the absence of living wills.A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra passed the order allowing passive #Euthanasia with guidelines ANI (@ANI) March 9 2018 The court was hearing a petition filed by the NGO Common Cause which sought direction to recognise living wills. The petition contended that when a medical expert says that a person with a terminal disease was not curable the patient should be given the right to refuse being put on life support.The petitioner had argued that the right to die peacefully and with dignity is part of the Right to Life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.During a hearing in October 2017 the Centre had argued against allowing living wills on the grounds that they could be misused. The government only conceded that such documents may be one of many factors that a board of doctors might consider in allowing passive euthanasia. Euthanasia may be active or passive. Active euthanasia involves giving a person a lethal substance to help end his or her life. It is illegal in India and amounts to murder.
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The Maharashtra government argued against the Supreme Court ordering a probe into the death of judge BH Loya who was dealing with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case saying it would destroy the credibility of the judiciary forever. Is the judiciary in such a sad state that it dances to one man? Then we might as well wind it up senior advocate Harish Salve told a three-judge bench led by CJI Dipak Misra. Scurrilous allegations have been made against several judges including a former CJI of the Madras high court in this context he argued. Should the court order a probe the judges will be examined as co-conspirators in a murder. Are they conspirators in a murder? Is it conceivable that one politician is doing all these things? If the court were to order a probe they will be questioned for murder. The system will be condemned forever. BJP chief Amit Shah was an accused in the case. He was discharged by Loya s successor. The CBI is yet to file an appeal against the discharge. The ongoing trial in the case has fallen through with several witnesses turning hostile.
The Supreme Court has set to rest the controversy surrounding the marriage of Akhila alias Hadiya to Shefin Jehan but its nod to National Investigation Agency (NIA) to continue its probe into the alleged links of the Muslim youth with extremist outfits will keep alive the debate on love jihad triggered by the inter-faith marriage. Hindu organisations have cited the apex court decision on 8 March to keep the investigation open as a clear admission of the existence of love jihad in Kerala. They had coined the term to describe several cases of conversion of non-Muslims to Islam in the 1990s.File image of Hadiya. Reuters The Hindu bodies had claimed that love jihad was part of a well-organised racket that hires young Muslim men to lure Hindu girls by feigning love for the purpose of conversion. It assumed the jihadi dimension after five neo-converts landed in IS territory on the Afghan-Syria border in October 2016. The issue triggered communal frenzy after the Sangh Parivar took it up. Even though the campaign spearheaded by the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) combine was dismissed as part of their political strategy to create a communal division in the state a recent case involving a 25-year-old woman hailing from Pathanamthitta district and settled in Gujarat has forced a rethinking in political circles. The woman alleged that a Muslim youth from Kannur who tricked her into marriage had tried to take her to Syria from Saudi Arabia. She had met the man identified as Mohammed Riyas while studying in Bengaluru in 2014. Riyaz who is an active member of Popular Front of India (PFI) a fundamentalist outfit carrying out conversions in Kerala had taken her forcibly to Saudi Arabia using forged documents. The woman said she was locked up in a room when she resisted his plans to take her to Syria. She was rescued with the help of some NRIs after she managed to contact her parents back home. The high court has referred the case to the NIA for investigation. Two persons who facilitated the marriage have been arrested in connection with the incident. The NIA is already investigating the migration of 21 youths from the northern districts of Kasargod and Palakkad to the Afghan-Syrian border in July 2016. They included one Hindu and four Christians who were converted to Islam. The anti-terrorist probe agency has already booked 16 persons in connection with the alleged IS recruitment and the trial in the first case involving 15 persons from Kasargod has already begun in the NIA court at Kochi. The main accused in the case are Abdul Abdulla Rashid and Yasmeen Mohammed Zahid of Bihar. The chargesheet filed in January 2017 named Rashid as the main conspirator who motivated a number of youths from Kasaragod to join the Islamic State along with their families. It said that Abdulla had raised funds from abroad and transferred the money to Yasmeen who used it for propagating the ideology of violent jihad. The Kerala High Court had ordered a police investigation into the Hadiya case after Shefin informed the court on 21 December 2016 that he intended to take his wife to Muscat where he worked. Hadiya s father KM Ashokan had earlier expressed suspicion that Shefin had married his daughter for the purpose of taking her to the IS camp in Syria. In its interim report on 6 January 2017 Kerala Police said that Shefin was an active member of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) the political arm of PFI and was one among 35-40 administrators of the party s Facebook page along with Manseed Buraq who was earlier arrested in a case connecting him with IS. The police informed the court that Jahan was also an accused in two police cases including a case related to a political clash. Shefin did not hide his involvement with SDPI in the counter affidavit he filed in the high court but denied any connection with Manseed Buag who was expelled from SDPI after his link with IS was exposed. The NIA was handed over the probe into the Hadiya case by Supreme Court after Shefin approached it in August 2017 with a plea to quash the 24 May high court verdict annulling his marriage to Hadiya. The findings of the agency submitted to the apex court in a sealed cover are not known. However Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh appearing for the agency informed the apex court that NIA s investigation had revealed a strong pattern of Hindu women being systematically indoctrinated and induced into conversion and marriage by radical outfits. The agency suspected external forces behind Hadiya s conversion into Islam since her mentor was found involved in other love jihad cases being investigated by it. The NIA had selected 32 out of 89 cases referred to it by the Kerala Police for detailed scrutiny. NIA s preliminary investigation revealed PFI women s wing chief Sainaba who mentored Hadiya as the common link in several cases. The agency found her involved in luring young Hindu girls into embracing Islam with the help of activists linked to Muslim outfits like PFI SDPI and Markazul Hidaya Sathyasarani. Shefin s counsel advocate Haris Beeran said the facts in the Hadiya case did not show any element of so-called love jihad since Hadiya had married Shefin much after she embraced Islam. She found him in a matrimonial site and married after due interactions. He told Firstpost whether there is anything incriminating against his client in the NIA probe will be known only after the court s full verdict will be available. The court had delivered only the operating part on Thursday. He said that the court may have taken the NIA probe findings into consideration while restoring the marriage of Hadiya and Shefin. Social activist Rahul Easwar who had interacted with Hadiya while she was in her parents custody also does not believe the involvement of love jihad in Hadiya s case. He doubts even any force behind the conversion. Rahul who is the grandson of Sabarimala hill shrine supreme priest told Firstpost that he found Hadiya to be a simple woman who had developed a genuine affinity towards Islam after her interactions with Muslim friends while studying. He also takes the Sangh Parivar propaganda about love jihad with a pinch of salt saying that they were blowing the issue out of proportion by citing a few isolated cases. However he finds substance in the allegation that there could be a force behind some conversions. Rahul is not ready to blame non-Hindus alone for this. Muslim and Christian organisations are able to attract Hindus into their faith because they are vulnerable to conversion. A large section in the Hindu community are disappointed with the neglect and discrimination they suffer. If the conversion lobby in other religion is able to lure them with better prospects they cannot be blamed he said. Social critic J Devika agrees with Rahul. She said most of the Hindus converts belonged to suppressed sections in the community. She told Scroll that the Hindu upper caste society still considered the lower Ezhava community with contempt in the state. Devika an associate professor at the Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthapuram pointed out that Hadiya s parents belonged to Ezhava community that is officially categorised as Other Backward Classes while the family of another convert Athira is part of Scheduled Caste Vannan community. She believes that the Sangh Parivar has been running the love jihad propaganda to mask the caste divide in Hindu society. They have realised that this caste division in the Hindu society is hurting its political plans. Love jihad is their ploy to mask the caste division and reap electoral dividends in Kerala Devika said. BJP leaders say their campaign against love jihad was not aimed at maligning a particular community. Party spokesman JR Padmakumar said they have been airing their concern in the wake of arrest of several people in connection with the recruitment of youths to extremist outfits including IS in the recent past.
Written by Shaju Philip | Updated: August 27 2017 7:56 pm Hadiya Related News Mission Kerala on its mind BJP gears up for Chengannur bypollKerala govt asks authorities to stop human blood ritualKannur murder: Kerala HC orders CBI probe hours after CM Vijayan Pinarayi says not necessary Annulled by HC Shefin Jahan s marriage to a Hindu convert is being investigated by NIA. But Akhila s journey to become Hadiya began long before she met him. SHAJU PHILIP tells her story THE Kottayam house where lives the woman whose conversion to Islam is now the subject of a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has long battled matters of faith. The 24-year-old s father is a sworn atheist her mother a staunch Hindu. K M Akhila now Hadiya often found herself torn between the two. Confined in the three-room house at T V Puram for the past three months on court orders Hadiya has not been allowed to step out or meet anyone. Policemen watch her every move and monitor the neighbourhood. Her uncle Suresh Babu a local Congress leader says Despite several rounds of counselling Hadiya is sticking to her Islamic faith. Now she is asking her parents to embrace Islam. Akhila s aunt Ganga blames her parents Ashokan used to chide wife Ponnamma over her religious beliefs. The daughter was confused. In the only visual of Hadiya to emerge from inside in a controversial video made by an activist she can be seen standing in a doorway. She pleads Is this what my life would be like now? Akhila is the only daughter of K M Ashokan 56 a retired Armyman and Ponnamma. T V Puram in Kerala s Kottayam district is a quiet middle-class Hindu neighbourhood and Akhila studied at the Government Higher Secondary School here. Relatives say she struggled with studies as she entered her senior years. After clearing Class 12 in her second attempt she applied for admission to the private Sivaraj Homeopathy Medical College & Research Institute in Salem Tamil Nadu. Suresh Babu says he helped her get a seat through an agent . In August 2010 Akhila 18 boarded a train to Salem 400 km away. READ THE STORY IN MALAYALAM Of the 25 students in her course four were from Kerala. Akhila quickly bonded with the four Divya Archana Rajan Dilna and Jaseela Aboobacker as well as Jaseela s younger sister Faseena who had joined another course at the same institute. Six months later the six took up a house on rent together moving out of the hostel. This was the first time Akhila had had Muslim friends or Muslim acquaintances. Jaseela who is now a homeopathic doctor says Akhila would watch her and Faseena as they offered namaz five times a day. Akhila s interest surprised her she adds. We thought she was an atheist like her father. When our roommates went to a temple they would have to coerce Akhila to come along. Soon Akhila borrowed a Quran in Malayalam from Jaseela to read. She started posting verses from it on Facebook. She said it was better to be associated with a religion than be an atheist Jaseela says adding Akhila shared everything with her mother. Archana who was part of their group says one development proved crucial. Akhila failed in the first-semester exam. Heartbroken she wanted to quit the course. It was Jaseela who counselled Akhila to stay back. After that they grew even closer says Archana of Aryambavu in Palakkad. Akhila now started listening to Islamic sermons on her phone downloaded from the Internet. Soon she had questions about Islam that Jaseela and Faseena found difficult to answer. Hoping to clear her doubts Jaseela put Akhila in touch with her father Parayil Aboobacker. Aboobacker who runs a furniture business near Perinthalmanna admits he talked to her. In 2011 Akhila was home on leave during Ramzan and observed a fast. Later for Eid-ul-Fitr she joined Jaseela and Faseena at their home in Angadippuram in Malappuram with their other Hindu friends. Once Akhila disclosed her intention to convert. I told her her father is an atheist and her locality has no Muslims. I gave her Upanishads (from his house) to read. I urged her to finish her studies says Aboobacker who is in his 60s. Jaseela says they started getting worried when Akhila started posting questions on Islam on the Internet. One day when she posted on Facebook the verse Every soul shall taste death it got a like from a Kannur youth Shanib studying MBA in Bengaluru. He introduced her to his cousin Sherin Shahana whose husband Fazal Musthafa had pursued Islamic Studies in Yemen. The couple were at the time in Mangaluru where Musthafa worked at a mosque. As Akhila started communicating regularly with Shahana and Musthafa Jaseela says they warned her over such Facebook friendships. We told her about people on social media who have an agenda to trap Hindu women. But she ignored us. According to police and court documents Akhila told the couple about her desire to convert and that accordingly they came to Kochi on September 10 2015. Police say Akhila got an affidavit attested from an advocate in Kochi saying she was living as a Muslim without compulsion and wanted to take on the name Aasiya. While Akhila kept this conversion bid a secret relatives says Ponnamma knew of her daughter s growing leanings towards Islam. Matters came to a head in November 2015 when Akhila s grandfather died and she refused to join the 40th-day rituals. Says uncle Suresh Babu We thought she was menstruating. But she told us she was following Islam and could not do Hindu rituals. Later we heard she had brought Islamic literature home fasted and offered prayers five times a day. Babu says Akhila argued that Islam was a good religion compared to Hinduism. When we scolded her she urged her parents too to embrace Islam says her uncle. Ashokan and Ponnamma refuse to talk to the media. With her rift with them widening Akhila left home on January 1 2016 apparently to return to college in Salem. Instead she went to her friend s Malappuram home. Says Aboobacker Akhila was on her way to Mangaluru to Shahana and Musthafa. They wanted her to stop studying and end relations with her family. Jaseela told me if Akhila goes to Mangaluru we would not get her back. Hence she forced her to come to our house. Aboobacker says Akhila however stuck to her decision to convert and the next day (January 2) he took her to an advocate in Perinthalmanna. She again got an attested affidavit saying she was embracing Islam of her own will. On Akhila s insistence to learn more about Islam Aboobacker says he took her to two Islamic institutions in Kozhikode. Both refused to admit Akhila instantly and so they turned to Sathya Sarani the only institute in Kerala that offers a two-month residential programme for new converts to Islam. Sathya Sarani too reportedly refused to admit her for want of proper documents and Aboobacker brought Akhila back home. The next day he says they had a fight and he sent her back to the Salem college. An official at the Salem college refused to share any details. We can t help you. We have no clue about that student he said. Crime Branch Superintendent of Police K V Santhosh who headed the High Court-ordered probe into Akhila s conversion says the friendship with the Mangaluru couple didn t last long. Akhila did not like their extreme orthodoxy he says. The couple later moved to Saudi Arabia. Shefin Jahan and his wife When Akhila returned to college in Salem on January 6 2016 she wore a headscarf creating a stir. One of her classmates told her father and an anxious Ashokan started calling her. Akhila however refused to return home and instead again went to Jaseela s house. Says Aboobacker I informed Ashokan that his daughter wanted to convert. I told him I would accompany her home. He told me he would pick her up from my house. Before the father arrived though Sathya Sarani members reached Aboobacker s house to get her. The president of a women s group National Women s Front A S Zainaba also came reportedly at the behest of Sathya Sarani. But Aboobacker says he did not allow them to take Akhila. I asked Akhila to go to Salem. So when Ashokan came she was no longer there says Aboobacker. Ashokan registered a case at a local police station and also moved a habeas corpus petition in the high court. Aboobacker was arrested and jailed for two days. Later it was Zainaba who produced Akhila in the high court on January 19 2016. The court allowed Akhila to stay with Zainaba and also let her attend the Islamic course at Sathya Sarani. Zainaba who once worked with the Sathya Sarani says the institute had sought her help to ascertain Akhila s intentions. Akhila attended a course at Sathya Sarani and returned to Zainaba s house as Hadiya . Now Hadiya also started talking about marriage hoping to find some support system. At her behest I registered her name on a matrimonial website says Zainaba. A police officer says the marriage plans were the tipping point for Hadiya s father. He says Ashokan being an atheist was not as concerned about his daughter s conversion until then. The news of Kerala Muslims leaving to join the Islamic State along with their wives a few of them converts worried him. He told his daughter about his fears. Hadiya vowed she would not go anywhere. But on August 16 2016 Ashokan filed a writ petition in the high court alleging there was a move to take his daughter out of India. Police sources say Ashokan s fears are baseless merely the concerns of a father about losing his only child. Hadiya did not even have a passport points out an officer. In response to her father s plea Hadiya was produced before court on August 22. Again she refused to go with her parents and said she wanted to stay with Zainaba. However the court sent her to a hostel in Kochi. On September 29 at the next hearing she was allowed to return to Zainaba. Shefin Jahan a graduate in Islamic Studies and working as a manager with a firm in Muscat since January 2015 was also registered on the matrimonial website. Shefin s parents Shajahan and Rejila Beevi originally from Kollam settled in Muscat nearly a decade ago but his father recently set up a business in Tamil Nadu. His sister Shehla Jahan is a nurse in Muscat. Shefin came to Kerala in November 2016 on a two-month leave and planned to get married during that time. Since he has some links with the trust that runs Sathya Sarani the wedding with Hadiya was arranged quickly. On December 19 the two got married at Zainaba s house in Malappuram. The marriage was not fake Shefin stresses to charges that it was just a ploy to take Hadiya abroad. I invited Ashokan too he didn t turn up. My friends and relatives came. We registered the marriage at the local panchayat. Dy SP Perinthalmanna M P Mohanachandran who probed the case initially also found nothing suspicious in the marriage. It was an arranged marriage attended by the local masjid committee representatives. They invited over 50 people. They hoped that after the wedding Hadiya could be produced in court by her own husband instead of Zainaba he says. SP Santhosh says they found no criminal cases against Shefin but for one related to campus politics. We didn t find any suspicious money transactions either he adds. Shefin admits that while in college he was a member of the Campus Front the student outfit of the radical Muslim group Popular Front of India (PFI) and ran the Facebook page of the PFI s political arm SDPI (Social Democratic Party of India). One of the followers of that FB page Mancy Buraqui was arrested last year for suspected IS links. Shefin says Buraqui was removed from the page when this was revealed. The PFI has now engaged advocates to fight Shefin s case. Accusing police of trying to depict him as a terrorist he says Last month I got a letter from the regional passport office asking why I had suppressed four criminal cases against me. But I only had one criminal case relating to a political clash on campus. On December 21 two days after their wedding Hadiya returned to court with Shefin. But the court sent Hadiya to the hostel again and ordered Shefin not to have any contact with her. They weren t allowed to talk at subsequent hearings either. Then on May 24 2017 the high court nullified the marriage. Ordering a probe it said A girl aged 24 is weak and vulnerable capable of being exploited in many ways. The Markazul Hidaya of Manjeri in Malappuram district is better known as Sathya Sarani. It is the only institute in Kerala that offers a two-month residential programme for new converts to Islam At the same time police officers understand where fears such as these spring from. Conversion efforts in Kerala are under investigation particularly in the light of youth joining IS. There are some who consider men marrying into another community heroes says an officer adding that often their hands are tied as the two parties are adults. Another officer associated with the case says Helping a convert is seen as an act that will pave the way to heaven. So an aspirant for Islam sees a battery of supporters. Muhammed Roshan a researcher on the Sociology of Religion at IIT-Madras points out that conversions to Islam in India have largely happened through social interactions. Unlike the Christian missionary movements messages of Islam have transferred through interactions with Muslims at social settings As this happened gradually it never disturbed the social eco-system he says adding that what has changed is emergence of Dammaj Salafi groups in Kerala as opposed to Sufi who believe in puritan Islam. Hindu activist Rahul Easwar who met Hadiya and her parents recently and released photos and a video that the family has objected to says both Hindu and Muslim groups are trying to cash in on the controversy. Easwar who has expressed dismay at Hadiya being kept in State confinement adds that it is difficult to demarcate between conversion and forced conversion and that there is no doubt that a concerted lobby is behind conversion. However Easwar who belongs to the family of Sabarimala priests says the reason why Hindus are getting attracted to Islam is the spiritual vacuum in the Hindu community. Hadiya he says felt a lack of belonging in the Hindu community . It s here that organisations like the Kochi-based Arsha Vidya Samajam step in. Started in 1999 K R Manoj the head of the institution is leading a movement to reconvert youth mostly Hindu women back to the religion. Earlier this year he says some of his volunteers had visited Hadiya at her parents request to counsel her to give up Islam. However he says Hadiya was one of the few projects we failed she was very arrogant and adamant during the counselling sessions . Since 2009 we have reconverted some 3 000 youth mostly young women to Hindusim he says. While most of these cases were of Hindu-Muslim conversions about 300 were of Hindu women who had converted to Christianity he says. Amidst the charges of forced conversion in the Hadiya case stands Markazul Hidaya of Manjeri in Malappuram district better known as Sathya Sarani. It is run by a trust that has leaders of the PFI among its members. In July 2010 then Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan had accused the PFI charged in many violent attacks of promoting Islamisation of Kerala . Manager Muhammed Rafi says no conversions happen at the institute only religious teaching. We don t convert anyone contrary to public perception. There is nothing mysterious here he says. When a new convert approaches the institute Rafi adds their antecedents are checked. Besides they have to furnish an affidavit attested by a notary that they have embraced Islam of their own free will. The manager also points out that police keep a close watch on the institute s functioning and frequently visit it to check up on missing women . Whenever anyone is tracked to our institute we duly produce them before police. Police sources say that during a recent inspection 52 inmates were found at the institute. Of them 28 were Hindu converts 16 Christian converts and eight Muslims. According to the institute last year 447 people attended courses at the college. This year the figure stands at 264 so far. Parayil Aboobacker the father of Hadiya s friends Jaseela and Faseena In a petition filed by Shefin challenging the high court verdict the Supreme Court last week ordered an NIA probe under the supervision of retired judge R V Raveendran. It agreed with the NIA contention that the Hadiya case did not appear to be an isolated one and compared it to the Blue Whale Challenge. It s been eight months now that he talked to his wife Shefin says. She has been produced before the court several times since but I was not allowed to speak to her. Her family and police don t let me meet her and she doesn t have a phone says Shefin who is staying in Chandanathopu 12 km from Kollam with an uncle. Forced to stay back he has lost his job in Muscat. SP Santhosh wonders what a new investigation would find. Our probe didn t find anything to make out a case against anyone At no stage is there evidence of coercion he says. The officer adds Hadiya gave several statements that she became a Muslim on her own. As long as she sticks to that no case can be framed Now let the NIA probe. But Shefin hasn t lost hope he says. He shows a recent message Hadiya sent to his phone from her mother s mobile. It reads Help me hadiya@akhila. Timeline: August 2010: Akhila leaves home to join a homeopathy medical college in Salem Tamil Nadu; becomes friends with two Muslim sisters September 10 2015: Akhila makes first attempt to convert gets an affidavit attested from an advocate in Kochi saying she was living as a Muslim without anyone s compulsion and wanted to take on the name Aasiya November 2015: Refuses to join Hindu rituals at home on death of her grandfather January 1 2016: Leaves home for college but instead goes to Jaseena and sister Faseela s home in Malappuram January 2: At her insistence says Jaseena s father P Aboobacker he takes her to an advocate where she registers an affidavit saying she was embracing Islam of her own will January 5: Aboobacker who says he tried to dissuade her refuses to help Akhila further sends her back to college January 6: Akhila attends college in Islamic dress. Her family learns about it. She approaches Islamic learning centre Sathya Sarani January 8: shokan files case against Aboobacker January 11: Aboobacker is arrested and faces charges of fomenting communal enmity released after 2 days January 12: Ashokan moves the first habeas corpus in high court January 18: Akhila is produced before court refuses to go with parents January 21 to March 21: Akhila alias Hadiya stays at Sathya Sarani to learn about Islam August 17: Ashokan moves a fresh writ petition in high court alleging there is a move to take his daughter to Syria to fight for Islamic State August 22: Court sends Hadiya to a hostel in Kochi August 26: Hadiya gives an affidavit to court that she embraced Islam of her will December 19: Hadiya gets married to Shefin Jahan of Kollam December 21: HC criticises the marriage sends Hadiya back to hostel. Tells Jahan not to meet her May 24 2017: Kerala HC nullifies the marriage sends Hadiya back to her parents puts her under police surveillance August 16: On Jahan s appeal against HC order Supreme Court orders NIA probe With inputs from Arun Janardhanan For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Man taken into custody for making death threat to Kerala CM Malli s tragedy: On death loss and failed government schemes in Kerala s only tribal block Tags: Kerala CCongress The CorruptMar 9 2018 at 11:08 pmThe Supreme court judgment seems too naive. As everything in black and white. Tis lady on several occasions gave false information to courts . Secondly se was put into islamic matrimonials after indoctrisin her by a sady organisation which runs a racket for converting hindu girls. Also it as been proved now the Oman returned man did not selected the girl online...they were introduced by the same shady oranistion. And lastly the man who is associated with extremist organisation...suddenly found highly paid supreme court lawyers appearing for him. Who is paying their fees!(0)(0) Reply PPapaMar 8 2018 at 3:32 pmCongratulations ! May you have a prosperous journey ahead.(0)(1) ReplyUuriMar 9 2018 at 9:24 pmIslam is more popular as it is easy to understand and follow. Hinduism is complex and one needs to be mature to understand as Hinduism is against concepts like religion which petty minds cannot comprehend(0)(0) Reply IISLAMIC CONVERSION FACTORIESNov 28 2017 at 9:11 amISLAM CONVERSION FACTORIES----------------Search on UTUBE OPERATION JIHAD MAFIA by Aaj Tak and OPERATION CONVERSION FACTORY by India Today............and see urself how ORGANIZED conversion rackets are being run by islamic states in India.............Funding for these conversions and love jihad comes from Saudi Pakistan and underworld......... Underworld earns huge money through its agents in BOLLYWOOD and then route that money for conversions killing and love jihad in India.......Islamic organizations guide and teach muslims how to approach and target Hindu women they also provide them funds and training for this........by this method on one side we decrease Hindu population and on other side we increase our islamic population.......They say if we marry a Hindu woman we 1st convert that woman and after that all the childrens are also muslims....(3)(7) Reply RRam SekharNov 28 2017 at 12:08 amThis is not conversion. This is psychological grooming. Following are the steps involved: Steps 1 - 4 - GROOMING Girl has doubts about her own religion. Steps 5 - 6 - CONVERT Girl is now in deep emotional stress. Forced to defend her decision. Change in perspective strong. Steps 7 - 9 - END GAME Most girls picked are soft. So they accept their new fate with no questions. They now attack their previous religion. Society thinks they have always acted on her free will. 1) Identify soft individuals and be friends with them 2) Constantly tell about how their religion is bad and how ISS LaaM is the best 3) Scare them saying they are going to hell 4) Start taking them to Dawaa keeping it secret from Parents 5) Separate emotionally from Parents. Reduce trust in family 6) Convert in secrecy from parents 7) Scare saying if they go back they will go to hell. Threaten if needed. 8) Tell that parents family will ask them to leave ISS LaaM. 9) Turn them against parents(16)(2) Reply Shaju PulloorAug 28 2017 at 12:43 pmThe Quran provides an environment where people can fully enjoy freedom of thought and freedom of religion and allows people to live by the faith and values they believe in. According to Islam everyone has the right to live freely by his beliefs whatever they may be. Anyone who wants to support a church a synagogue or a mosque must be free to do so. In this sense freedom of religion or freedom of belief is one of the basic tenets of Islam. There is always freedom of religion wherever the moral values of the Qur an prevail. That is why Muslims also treat Jews and Christians described in the Qur an as the People of the Book with great justice love and compassion. God says in the Qur an: God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes or from being just towards them. God loves those who are just. (Surat al-Mumtahana 8)(11)(23) ReplyGGuest4321Nov 28 2017 at 7:54 amFirst and foremost Humanity and all religions say that we should not tell lies. your comment does not withstand that scrutiny. ISIS are representatives of Islam and we all know what they do. Muslims should start accepting that there is a problem in their belief and should work to eradicate those fundamentalist ideas. Sermons like above will only draw dis-belief from everyone when the reality is that most terrorists world wide are muslims.(8)(4) ReplyKkurtNov 28 2017 at 9:40 pmIs is do not represent Islam. Get the fact right. Rss. Baj rang Dallas. Shiv sena goons represent hindu for sure. People are not stupid enough to convert after all negativity spread about Islam by people like you. Yet the fastest growing religion by conversion. Facts are there you can t fool people.(4)(3)Ridhima TiwariDec 2 2017 at 10:02 pmhaha What a joke!(2)(0) ReplyRidhima TiwariDec 2 2017 at 10:02 pmHaha ! what a joke you just wrote here.(2)(0) ReplyUuriMar 9 2018 at 9:26 pmislam is for petty minds hinduism requires deep study which most people can t even after maturity(0)(0) Reply Load More Comments
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today took umbrage against a senior lawyer for casting aspersions on judges that they were only asking searching questions to those who brought the Judge BH Loya death case before it and not to the Maharashtra government.Disapproving such remarks a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud said that judges were guided by their conscience and heart in delivering justice and they do not need any certificate from anyone. We will ask questions what we want to satisfy our conscience. We don t have to show a veneer of justice to you. Justice is in our hearts and minds. We don t want a certificate least of all from an arguing counsel the bench said.The strong remarks came when senior advocate Dushyant Dave said the court was not asking questions to another senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for Maharashtra when he was arguing and he had to face all the queries.Justice Chandrachud replied that fortunately in our judicial system the judges have to agree with the lawyers and not vice versa . Unfortunately in our system you don t have to agree with us but we have to agree with you sometimes a person is so involved in the arguments that he forgets who is a judge and who is a lawyer he said.Senior advocate Dave replied that there are always two ways to look at something and one should stand for the cause.To this Justice Chandrachud said No leniency to justice is being imparted. Justice lies in our conscience. During the hearing the bench also clarified that it cannot direct the state to file affidavit and the documents once produced by the Maharashtra government can be equally good. We will not allow the state to correct the anomaly if any by way of affidavit. If there is anything wrong it will be dealt according to the law it said.Senior advocate Dave then said that he can t file contempt or seek perjury proceedings against the state as the documents are not filed on affidavit.The bench said that he (Dave) can still file contempt and seek initiation of perjury proceedings against the state in case of any false documents.While referring to Ravi Bhavan where judge Loya was staying the night before he died senior advocate Dave said that it was just at a five-minutes distance from the chief justice s bungalow and questioned why his car could not be called to take him to the hospital. If the chief justice cannot take care of his judiciary then he is not fit to be chief justice the senior advocate said.This statement led to heated exchange between senior advocates Dave and Rohatgi who objected to the statement of the former saying he cannot accuse everybody. This case is mala fide based on an article in media. The article was a case of yellow journalism. The article was never published for three years but once a petition challenging the discharge of accused in Sohrabuddin Sheikh case was dismissed by the apex court the article surfaces senior advocate Rohatgi said.Senior advocate Dave questioned why did the CBI then not file the appeal against the discharge of BJP president Amit Shah in the case.Senior advocate Rohatgi replied these are all absurd allegations and the CBI had filed the appeals against some of the accused in the case.Senior advocate Dave then moved on and argued that the report of intelligence commissioner has to be rejected and does not inspire confidence due to various anomaly.At the fag end of the hearing advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the Centre for Public Interest Litigation said two reports (histopathology and the ECG) of judge Loya were not filed by the State in the documents filed before the court.Advocate Bhushan said he had personally met many cardiologists who had seen these reports and had ruled out that judge Loya had died of a heart attack.He pointed out the expert opinion of Dr. Upendra Kaul former professor of cardiology at AIIMS and Padma Shri awardee who had virtually ruled out a heart attack as the cause of death on the basis of the histopathology and ECG reports.Advocate Bhushan further pointed out that the doctor at Dande Hospital and Meditrina Hospital in Nagpur had noted tall T-waves in the ECG in their statements filed with the State.The arguments remained inconclusive and would continue tomorrow.On March 5 the top court had said questions should not be raised over the change in the judge hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in Bombay High Court as the change in the roster was a routine affair which is in accordance with the established tradition there. CommentsJudge Loya who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case had allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague s daughter.The bench is hearing batch of pleas including those filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala and Maharashtra-based BS Lone seeking an independent probe into judge Loya s death.
Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: March 9 2018 7:33 am CBI Judge B H Loya Taking a strong view of the petitioner s argument that it has not put forth questions to the state of Maharashtra in connection with the plea seeking an independent probe into the death of judge B H Loya the Supreme Court said that it will ask questions it wants and that justice lies in its conscience . The observations came after senior advocate Dushyant Dave counsel for Bombay https://wanelo.co/kkdigital Lawyers Association told the bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud that while the court has put many questions to him and also offered alternative possibilities it has not put forth such questions to senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi representing Maharashtra. It is a matter of great regret that the judiciary has unwittingly withdrawn. This report deserves to be thrown out in the dustbin. Your lordships should have been more harsher. There were no searching questions that were put to the state It troubles me that your lordships have put many questions and offered alternative possibilities during my arguments but have not put forth such questions to Rohatgi Dave said. To this Justice Chandrachud replied We will ask the questions we want. Justice lies in our conscience. We do not want a certificate from an arguing counsel. Concluding his argument Dave asked the bench as to why it has not issued notices to Maharashtra government which has filed the discreet inquiry report containing the testimonies of four lower court judges who accompanied judge Loya. This court has issued notices in the Sunanda Pushkar case to the police. That is also a case where the death occurred in unnatural circumstances But here your lordships have not issued any notices this report does not inspire confidence Dave argued. Justice Khanwilkar responded That case is different the police was already required to file a report several days before the said order but it had failed to do so. Justice Chandrachud said: The filing of affidavit can never improve the document or evidence Any order for further investigation that we may pass shall depend on the adequacy or inadequacy of the evidence the state has filed before this court. Dave asked In the absence of affidavits how can we attack the veracity of the report on the grounds of perjury or contempt? Justice Chandrachud replied Any documents that have been filed across the bar are a part of the record Proceedings for contempt and perjury shall still lie. During the arguments Dave questioned the veracity of the discreet inquiry report and said Soon after the article published government ordered the inquiry the commissioner of state intelligence sought permission from Chief Justice to record statement of four judges. How did he know who were the four judges? The report mentions only judge Barde The commissioner did not step out. Did not see any document or meet any doctor to collect evidence. This report does not inspire any confidence the state wanted to pre-empt an independent inquiry. And if this petition is dismissed the state would achieve that purpose. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App Tags: Judge Loya death supreme court KKalyanMar 9 2018 at 6:55 pmI wonder when SOME SC Judges will appear to be NOT biased anymore and do NOT question SELECTIVELY one party and look pre-biased?(0)(0) Reply suneil nayagamMar 9 2018 at 2:12 pm Normally people go to judges for justice. For the first time but I saw 4 Justices of the Supreme Court go to the people Rahul Gandhi at Lee Kwan Yu Singapore(14)(2) Reply PParthMar 9 2018 at 1:16 pmAdvocate Dushyant Dave at the top of his legal acumen.(16)(4) Reply SS. Javed.Mar 9 2018 at 1:14 pmIf justice is not done God will do the justice one day or other. All those who are to defame or cover up some body for one reason or other will be definitely punished in this world as well as hereafter. Nobody will then have power to interfere provide relief. The torment of God is very very severe beyond anybody s imagination.(3)(1) Reply AAbhishek YadavMar 9 2018 at 12:39 pmThe histopathology report has revealed narrowing of arteries and congestion in the brain but the heart tissue and muscles have shown to be normal. When there is a heart attack one part of the heart dies and that would have been appa in the microscopic exam...I have filed my own affidavit in this behalf as I had spoken to the doctors in person who were not willing to come on record he continued.(8)(2) Reply Load More Comments

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