Once again, Hadiya’s father files a lawsuit, this time claiming “illegal detention.”

The father of Hadiya, the Kerala woman who entered the Supreme Court through her religious conversion and marriage to a Muslim man five years ago, sparked discussions about a woman’s right to choose her partner, went to the Kerala High Court on Friday, alleging that his daughter is being unlawfully detained by her husband.

Thiruvananthapuram-based Hadiya, 31, said that her father’s accusations were false and that she was safe and secure on a local TV station.

In a Friday habeas corpus petition, KM Asokan requested that his daughter appear in court. In his appeal, he claimed that Hadiya had closed the homeopathic clinic she was operating and that he had been unable to get in touch with her over the phone.

The petitioner believes that she was taken into the unlawful custody of respondents 3 and 4 and is now under their jurisdiction. With the cooperation and connivance of the fourth and sixth respondents, the detainee is now in the unlawful possession of those individuals. Thus, the detenu must be freed as soon as possible, the appeal said.

On December 12, the petition will be heard by the High Court’s division bench.

Hadiya said, “There’s no need for a question mark over where I am,” when speaking with reporters. I’m not hiding, and I haven’t turned off my phone either. My father has always caused problems that have made it hard for me to survive. My life has been challenging because of the cyberattacks that I have experienced. For all these years, the forces of Sangh Parivar have used my father as a weapon. That he is letting himself be exploited in that manner is regrettable.

She also said that she had remarried after divorcing her previous spouse, Shefin Jahan and that she had been in regular contact with her parents. I don’t believe it has to be brought up again since I’ve remarried. I’m a responsible adult who can make my own choices,” she said.

In March 2018, the Kerala High Court’s ruling that Hadiya and Shefin Jehan’s marriage was a “sham” was overturned by the Supreme Court, which maintained the legitimacy of the union.

“In India, marriage and close personal ties are the cornerstones of pluralism. The Supreme Court had said, “We cannot allow the state or anyone else to intrude into this very private space.”

The high court order, according to a bench that included the current Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice AM Khanwilkar, and former Chief Justice Dipak Misra, violated the freedom of an adult woman. The judges also criticized the Kerala government for assisting the woman’s father, who they claimed was “obstinate” and did everything in his power to “garrote” his daughter’s wish to live with the man of her choosing. The tribunal said in its April 2018 ruling that “the idea itself is a manifestation of the idea of patriarchal autocracy and possibly self-obsession with the feeling that a female is a chattel.”