The issue of alleged "forced conversion" of girls in Kerala is getting serious, the National Commission for Women's chairperson in-charge Rekha Sharma said today after meeting Hadiya, a 24-year-old woman whose marriage with a Muslim man is at the centre of a nationwide controversy. Sharma met Hadiya at her family home in Vaikom in Kottayam district, a week after the Supreme Court directed her father to produce her before it on November 27. "I just met Akhila — Hadiya. NCW was concerned about her well being.
She is in good health, she has not been beaten up or anything, she is eating her food and she was smiling, she was happy," she said, adding that there were no security issues. "She said she is willing to go to court. She is waiting for November 27. I am OK. I will talk to the court. That is what she said," Sharma said. The meeting came amid complaints that the woman's rights were being violated in the confines of her home.