Kochi

The Kerala High Court disposed of the habeas corpus writ filed by the father of Joisna Mary Joseph, whose marriage with a Muslim man named Shejin triggered a row over so-called love jihad.

A division bench of the high court sent Joisna with Shejin after the woman submitted in the court that she was not under any detention and had gone with Shejin on her own.

Joisna's father had earlier filed a complaint with police that she was under illegal detention.

Shejin is a member of the DYFI, the youth wing of CPIM.

Earlier, a CPI(M) leader from Kozhikode district had supported the allegation of Joisna's father that the interfaith marriage was part of love jihad.

Love jihad is an Islamophobic conspiracy theory of the right wing in which Muslim men allegedly target Hindu women under the pretence of love to marry them and convert them to Islam as part of a plan for domination through demographic growth.