NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from Chandigarh administration and governments of Odisha and J&K on the plea of an Odia couple who sought rescue of their pharmacist daughter from ‘love jihad’, a term that entered the annals of the SC through Hadiya-Safin Jahan case from Kerala in 2017-18.
A bench of Justices UU Lalit, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose issued notices to the government in the case that spanned three state and UT jurisdictions after hearing arguments from Sudarsh Menon, who narrated the story of the woman’s parents being unable to trace her after her marriage to a Muslim man in Chandigarh. He said she vanished into the hinterland of Chandigarh. The SC asked respondents to file counter affidavits by July 23, the next date of hearing.