Following a habeas corpus filed by a CPI(M) office bearer, a division bench of Kerala High Court on Wednesday (June 30) directed the state police to produce his son and wife within a week and file a probe report.
Kerala HC asks Police to take immediate Cognizance on a Plea by CPI(M) Sub district member that his Wife and Son were Converted under Coercion and have been Unlawfully detained by Therbiyathul Is|am Sabha in Kozhikode
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The petitioner Gilbert P T, who is a CPI(M) branch committee member at Neerolpalam in Malappuram district, told the court that his wife and son were allegedly converted under coercion and have been unlawfully detained by Therbiyathul Islam Sabha in Kozhikode.
Gilbert has made serious allegations that the local mahallu committee took his wife and son to the Islam Sabha on June 6 and got them converted within 24 hours. The petition also states that Gilbert had filed a missing complaint the next day with local police, which traced them to the religious institution.
However, when the recently converted woman was brought before a local magistrate, she was allegedly under the threat of local Muslim people, whom the petitioner has arraigned as respondents.
Gilbert in his petition has accused local panchayat member Naseema Yunus, a member of the Indian Union Muslim League, and her husband Yunus of allegedly inducing his wife to get converted and had promised her a house in return.
He also let the authorities know that his wife had informed him about the offer, which he had outrightly rejected and he has now demanded that a thorough investigation be carried out to find out the intention behind the alleged coercive conversion of his wife and son to Islam.
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