Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 (IANS) “A mother’s love will always prevail over everything else,” says a Kerala mother who wants the Centre to help bring her daughter Nimisha — allegedly an Islamic State supporter — back to India from Afghanistan.
Nimisha is lodged in a jail in Kabul. Her mother Bidhu is settled near Manacadu in the state capital.
“The Centre should show magnanimity — that’s what I humbly request. Let the law of our country decide if my daughter is right or wrong. A mother’s love will always prevail over everything and I am confident, it will prevail,” Bindhu told the media here on Monday after a TV report showed the jailed woman along with her child.
The TV visuals also showed another Kerala woman Soniya and her child. In the clip, both women point out that they decided to return to the mainstream as things were not what they thought would be. They were also worried about their future on return to India.
Incidentally, the news of Keralites joining the IS surfaced after the Kerala government contacted central agencies like the Investigation Bureau, National Investigation Agecy, Research and Analysis Wing in 2016 to check reports about 19 people who went missing from the southern state. Relatives of some of them said they had joined the Islamic State.
These 19 included 10 men, six women and three children, with most hailing from Kasargode and a few from Palakkad districts. These people included Christian and Hindu converts.
In the past two years, a few of the IS joinees were reportedly killed, according to their relatives. The husbands of these two Kerala women were among those killed.
In 2016, Bindhu approached Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for help to locate her missing daughter.
It was later found that Nimisha had married her friend Eeza, a Christian who had converted to Islam.
Thereafter, there was news that she had left for Afghanistan. Bindhu’s last contact with her daughter was in November 2019.
–IANS
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