KOCHI: The mother of Nimisha alias Fatima Isa, the Keralite woman who is presently in a jail in Afghanistan, has withdrawn the petition filed at the high court seeking repatriation of her daughter and granddaughter.
Bindu K of Attukal near Manacaud in Thiruvananthapuram withdrew the petition after a division bench pointed out that a habeas corpus plea is not the petition that has to be filed to release a person detained abroad and that the petitioner should approach a single bench. The petitioner then withdrew the habeas corpus plea so as to approach a single bench.
Nimisha was detained by Afghanistan authorities after her husband, who was allegedly an ISIS fighter, had died in a fight. Her mother had contended in the plea that by abandoning Nimisha and other Indian women detained in Afghanistan, the Indian government is inadvertently bolstering the falsehoods being propagated by radical outfits.
Not repatriating Nimisha and the granddaughter amounts to violation of fundamental right to life and denial of right to education to the granddaughter, the petitioner had alleged.
The mother’s plea had said that Nimisha can be subject to due process of law upon her return whereas the granddaughter can be rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. In June this year, central government had denied Afghanistan’s request for deportation of the Indian women and children, the petition had stated.
