Mother of woman who joined ISIS files plea in Kerala HC seeking her repatriation

K Bindu, mother of Nimisha Fathima, has filed a plea in the Kerala High Court seeking the repatriation of her daughter and her 4-year-old grandchild. Nimisha Fathima left India to join ISIS in 2016 or 2017.

K Bindu, a native of Thiruvananthapuram and the mother of Nimisha Fathima, has filed a plea in the Kerala High Court seeking the repatriation of her daughter and her four-year-old grandchild. Nimisha Fathima had left Kerala to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group a few years ago. Bindu’s habeas corpus petition seeks to direct the central government to bring back Nimisha Fathima as well as her grandchild and to produce them in court. They have been lodged in a prison in Afghanistan since 2019.