The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday allowed a 22-year-old woman to live with her husband, saying she is a major and free to marry a man of her choice.
A division bench, headed by Justice GK Vyas, also directed the police to ensure safety of Aarifa, earlier know as Payal Singhvi, reported The Hindu.
The court also set her free from the Nari Niketan women's home in Jodhpur, where she was sent last week following allegations that she was forcibly converted.
The woman’s brother had filed a habeas corpus petition, alleging that their marriage was a case of “love jihad”, and that she had been forcibly converted to Islam, added the report.
According to the report, soon after the order activists of right wing organisations gathered in large numbers outside the court and raised slogans against Aarifa being allowed to go with her husband.
The high court’s order came days after the Supreme Court ordered Hadiya, the woman at the centre of the Kerala Love Jihad case, to be produced before it on November 27. The court will hear her out in open court.
Last month, a group of people had submitted a petition to Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and demanded a probe into the alleged unlawful incarceration of Hadiya, the 24-year-old Vaikom native, who had converted to Islam after marriage.
Four months ago, the Kerala High Court had sent Hadiya with her parents KM Asokan and Ponnamma after annulling her marriage with Shafin Jahan.
Hadiya's husband had gone to the Supreme Court to challenge the high court order.
