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Kerala woman’s forced conversion to Islam by husband : NIA to probe case

Kerala woman’s forced conversion to Islam by husband: NIA to probe case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case following a complaint by a woman from Kerala, who alleged that her husband tried to take her to Syria after converting to Islam.

The NIA registered the case yesterday.The case, which was earlier handled by the police, will now be handled by the NIA.

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The woman (25) had approached the Kerala High Court last year seeking an NIA probeagainst  her husband Mohammad Riyaz, a resident of Thalassery, for attempting to take her to Syria from Saudi Arabia.

She said that her husband had plans to sell her to the Islamic State (IS) terrorists as a sex slave.The woman claimed that she had met Riyaz while studying in Bengaluru in 2014 and alleged that her marriage was registered using forged documents.She added that she was allegedly blackmailed by him later.

An investigation revealed that it was an organised network which executed the  conversion  of the woman.An NIA investigation is underway. 

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