Manjeri: Ayisha aka Aparna, a resident of Pangode, said that she had come to Satyasarani in Cherani, Manjeri to learn about Islam and that she came to know about the institution from her friends. She was addressing a press meet arranged by officials at Satyasarani.
The engineering student said that she used to call her mother and added that her mother is under pressure from her relatives. She said that she reached Satyasarani from Kozhikode and added that she had become an Islamic believer when she was in eighth standard.
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Meanwhile, Satyasarani chair Abdurahiman Baqavi said that the organization does not engage in conversions and added that rumors about it doing so were being propagated by the Sangh Parivar. Officials at the institution said that there are 42 students currently studying in the facility. The course is for two months and the institution does not receive foreign funding.
A Nilambur resident, who has come out with allegations against the institution is being prompted by the Sangh Parivar, they claimed. Ayisha came here after becoming a Muslim and she had said so twice in the High Court following a Habeas corpus writ. All efforts to malign the institution would be resisted, they said.