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Dont probe Hadiyas Choice of Partner: SC
Context
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to stay away from prying into Hadiya’s choice to marry Shafin Jahan
“The court cannot question her choice,” said the Chief Justice.
- The apex court was hearing an oral request made by Jahan, the man who married Hadiya, a homoeopathy student in her mid-twenties. Hadiya had converted from Hinduism to Islam before marrying Jahan.
Court Observed
- “You can investigate any of the aspects, but you cannot investigate the marital aspect… you cannot investigate whether she married a good person or a bad person. That’s her choice,” Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra observed.
- “Again, whether she made a good choice or bad choice in a husband, only she knows. Court cannot question her choice,” the Chief Justice observed.
- Marriage and our choice of a life partner should be segregated from any “criminal conspiracies, criminal attributives and actions.”
- The court scheduled the case for February 22.
