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A pistillate from Madhya Pradesh, who went viral during the Kumbh Mela past year, and her histrion husband, Farman Khan, person approached the Madhya Pradesh High Court alleging that her begetter and others forged documents to represent her arsenic a insignificant aft she joined a antheral of different religion successful Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram.
Seeking an urgent hearing, the mates besides accused the Madhya Pradesh Police of intimidation and harassment during visits to Kerala arsenic portion of an probe into a lawsuit filed against Mr. Khan, a autochthonal of Baghpat territory successful Uttar Pradesh.
The woman, a nonmigratory of Khargone, went viral connected societal media portion selling garlands and rudraksha beads astatine the Kumbh Mela successful Allahabad successful aboriginal 2025. She aboriginal went connected to enactment arsenic an actor. But a contention erupted aft she started dating and yet joined Mr. Khan successful March, 2026, with her household alleging that she was lone 16 years aged and that Mr. Khan had “trapped her successful emotion jihad”.
Based connected a ailment filed by her begetter and a probe by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), an FIR was registered against Mr. Khan successful Khargone’s Maheshwar nether provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, arsenic the pistillate hails from the Pardhi tribal community. The NCST probe claimed that she was 17 years old, arsenic per her commencement records obtained from a authorities infirmary successful Maheshwar.
Mr. Khan is presently connected anticipatory bail from the Kerala High Court.
In the associated petition, the mates claimed that the pistillate was calved connected January 1, 2008, arsenic shown successful a commencement certificate issued by the Maheshwar Nagar Panchayat, and was, therefore, an big astatine the clip of her marriage.
The petition alleged that the FIR against Mr. Khan was portion of a “criminal conspiracy and communal incitement”, based connected “forged authorities documents”.
“Her father, successful collusion with his co-conspirators, acceptable into question a calculated and malicious plan to represent the miss arsenic a insignificant and to criminalise the lawful matrimony betwixt 2 consenting adults. In furtherance of the said conspiracy, the commencement records were manipulated by wrongful substitution of entries, and the day of commencement of the miss was falsely altered to January 1, 2009,” the plea said, portion terming the FIR against Mr. Khan a “counterblast” to their marriage.
The pistillate claimed that her “genuine commencement certificate has been maliciously cancelled connected the [M.P.] authorities portal without announcement oregon authority”. The petitioners person sought restoration of the commencement certificate and an autarkic probe into the alleged conspiracy.
The mates besides said that pursuing the FIR, the Madhya Pradesh Police officers person made repeated visits to Kerala for the probe.
“The behaviour of the constabulary officials has caused sedate apprehension and fearfulness to the petitioners and persons intimately associated with them. The petitioners authorities that the investigating officials person been making repeated inquiries, visits and interventions successful a mode which has resulted successful intimidation and harassment not lone to the petitioners but besides to persons acquainted with them,” the plea said, claiming that the mates has had to often determination wrong Kerala and that it has impacted their lives and work.
Invoking the close to idiosyncratic liberty nether Article 21 of the Constitution, the mates besides alleged the woman’s begetter and assorted different men circulated “false and inflammatory propaganda” done media and societal media, branding Mr. Khan arsenic a “terrorist”, and attempted to communalise a lawful matrimony betwixt 2 adults by utilizing the malicious and provocative rhetoric of “love jihad”.
Earlier, the pistillate had filed a lawsuit successful Kerala’s Ernakulam against her begetter and others connected akin allegations.
