Hyderabad:
The controversy surrounding three Hindu sisters and their minor cousin who kissed Islam were settled on Friday in a law court in the Sanghar district, apparently, to the great consternation of the parents.
The court authorized the two adult sisters to live independently and to practice their new religion while the police were invited to hand over the minor sister and the cousin to parents with a condition that the two will not be forced in matters of religion.
The court released the computer professor Farhan Khaskheli, who was blamed for having pretended to remove the children of the complainants under the threat of a firearm and for having forced them to change religion, and his brother Zulfiqar Khaskheli. In addition to two others, they were reserved in a FIR filed on June 18 on the parents’ complaint.
The parents of Dashina Bai and Harjeet Kumar, whose Muslim names are Sidra and Abdul Rafay, were responsible for submitting a business with a personal recognition link (PR) of RS10 million each, ensuring that they will not put pressure on their children to return to their old religion. “… [a] The religious belief of the person is not tangible and could not be seen or touched, because such faith is the question of the heart and the condemnation, therefore, no court could declare the said conversion as invalid and zero, “said Judge Asif Ali.
The court also ordered the police to move the adult sisters Jiya and Diya, who also renamed Mariam and Khadija, as well as the Gosha-Eafiat Trust minors from Jamia Masjid al-Falah in Karachi. The guarding of minors will be given to parents after submitting the public relations surety.
During the hearing, the three sisters and their male cousin deposited before the court that they had accepted Islam without constraint or greed. They also absolved the accused of accusations of kidnapping. “The declarations of 17 years and Harjeet aged 14 were recorded and the two minors have deposited that they had adopted Islam on their own free will,” noted the judge.
Citing verse number 256 of the Sourate Baqrah of the sacred book, the judge said that Islam prohibited forced conversion. But he distinguished the case in question from that in which the element of force becomes obvious.
“… it cannot be outside the box to say that minors lacked legal capacity to abjure their religion and that the change of religion did not do so, ipso facto, deprive a parent of right to the care of a child and candidates being the real parents of minors are entitled to the guard.”
Three sisters and their cousin left their home and accepted Islam on June 18. The Hindu community reacted to the incident by alleging that their children were kidnapped.
However, the sisters and their cousins have published their video statements on social networks, declaring that they had adopted Islam. Police have always filed an abduction tree on the parents’ complaint and on June 19, they recovered the four in a shelter house near Katti Pahari in Karachi and brought them back to Sanghar.
Friday morning, they were all produced in front of the court concerned to deposit.
