<p align="justify" class="bodytext">A Kerala woman, whose marriage to a Muslim man was annulled after being termed love jihad, has told the Supreme Court she wanted to exercise her freedom of religion and choice of marriage.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">In an affidavit, Akhila, who was renamed Hadiya after conversion, contended that she was a Muslim and wanted to live like a Muslim.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">She also sought permission to live with her husband Shafin Jahan as a couple because she embraced Islam and married him on her own free will.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">"I have been under confinement without the freedom that I am entitled to. Even now I am under police surveillance. I most humbly pray that my entire liberty may kindly be restored to me," her 25-page affidavit stated.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">A three-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had in November sent the 25-year-old woman to Salem in Tamil Nadu to pursue her studies after taking her out of the custody of parents.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Her father Asokan K M had alleged that her husband was merely a "stooge" in a "well-organised conversion machinery". The court had earlier on January 23 questioned the NIA, probing instances of love jihad and larger conspiracy into such marriages in Kerala.</p>
<p align="justify" class="bodytext">A Kerala woman, whose marriage to a Muslim man was annulled after being termed love jihad, has told the Supreme Court she wanted to exercise her freedom of religion and choice of marriage.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">In an affidavit, Akhila, who was renamed Hadiya after conversion, contended that she was a Muslim and wanted to live like a Muslim.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">She also sought permission to live with her husband Shafin Jahan as a couple because she embraced Islam and married him on her own free will.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">"I have been under confinement without the freedom that I am entitled to. Even now I am under police surveillance. I most humbly pray that my entire liberty may kindly be restored to me," her 25-page affidavit stated.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">A three-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had in November sent the 25-year-old woman to Salem in Tamil Nadu to pursue her studies after taking her out of the custody of parents.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Her father Asokan K M had alleged that her husband was merely a "stooge" in a "well-organised conversion machinery". The court had earlier on January 23 questioned the NIA, probing instances of love jihad and larger conspiracy into such marriages in Kerala.</p>
