Kerala girl Hadiya reached out to mend fences with her estranged parents over a phone call on Thursday.
This was her first interaction with her parents, retired Army man K. M. Asokan and motherPonnamma, after arriving here on Tuesday evening from New Delhi, soon after attendingthe Supreme Court proceedings. She was known as Akhila Asokan earlier.
Ms. Hadiya was escorted to the Sivaraj Homoeopathic Medical College and Research Institute from the hostel in the city in a separate vehicle. She spoke to her parents on the mobile phone of college Principal G. Kannan.
Dr. Kannan told The Hindu that the communication between the parents and daughter in Malayalam was conducted in a cordial manner. Ms. Hadiya informed her parents that she had reached Salem to continue her mandatory internship, in accordance with the direction of the Supreme Court.
She told her parents that she was well-placed in the girls’ hostel and take care of well by all concerned. “I am spending time happily in both the college and hostel,” she informed them.
She appeared further relaxed after speaking to her parents, Dr. Kannan said.
It may be recalled that Ms. Hadiya had called her husband Shefin Jahan from the college on Wednesday.
Ms. Hadiya had no work to do in the college as the communication from Dr. MGR Medical University ‘condoning her break of studies period’, for which the application was forwarded on Wednesday, is yet to be received. However, she was taken to the college as the management was not prepared to leave her alone in the hostel.
Since she knew a majority of the current students of her department, as they were all her juniors over the 2010-2015 period in which she was pursuing the Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) programme, Ms. Hadiya freely mingled and moved with them in the college premises, the Principal said.
She was a disciplined and well-behaved student, and college authorities said they did not wish to put any pressure on her. “I meet her thrice a day in the morning, during lunch hours and before she left the college for her hostel in the evening, to ensure that she is comfortable both in the college and in the hostel,” Dr. Kannan said.
Police pickets were continued near the college and hostel to ensure Ms. Hadiya’s safety and security, city police sources said.
