'Forcefully Converted, Sexually Exploited': 25-Year-Old Approaches Kerala High Court

A 25- year-old girl filed a petition in Kerala High Court stating that she is a victim of forceful conversion, fraudulent marriage, and sexual slavery.

The petition alleges that she was taken to Saudi Arabia and was forced to be a sex slave there. She has told that she will be taken to IS territory in Syria. She somehow managed to contact her parents and they send her ticket to come back to Gujarat on October 3.

She has approached the court to nullify the marriage and to conduct an NIA investigation into these anti-national activities. Her advocate also alleged that Riyaz is a member of The Popular Front of India (PFI) an Islamic fundamentalist organisation.

The Kerala High Court will consider the petition on November 13.

The woman is a Keralite but was born and brought up in Gujarat. She was studying in Bengaluru where she met Muhammed Riyaz, the two got into a relation and he recorded a private video of her.

According to the petition, Riyaz blackmailed her with the video, asking her to convert and marry him.

The woman was sent to religious classes and was also forced to see Zakir Naik's speeches, claimed by her counsel V Sethunath

This incident has come at a time when NIA has claimed that they have come across at least 90 cases of forced conversions in Kerala.