A 19-year-old Bhopal nursing student eloped with Yusuf shortly before getting married. Notably, the girl was counseled to keep her distance from Yusuf by BJP's Bhopal Member of Parliament (MP), Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. The girl had also been accompanied to see The Kerala Story by Pragya Singh Thakur.
Adah Sharma's portrayal of a Hindu woman from Kerala is the focus of The Kerala Story. She is transferred to Syria where she is coerced into converting to Islam and forced to join the IS terror group. Since the preview for the movie was revealed last year, there has been criticism.
The 19-year-old girl's family claims Yusuf is their neighbor, and they live in Bhopal's Naya Basera neighborhood.
According to her family, the girl used the money and jewellery that were saved for her wedding to elope with Yusuf before her May 30 wedding.
The girl's family complained that Yusuf had "trapped their daughter with his sweet talk and later eloped with her" in their letter to the Kamla Nagar police station in Bhopal.
They said that Yusuf had also taken up a bank loan in the girl's name and made her pay its equated monthly instalment (EMI).
Contrary to what her family claimed, the girl claimed in her police interview that she eloped with Yusuf—a history sheeter with more than six criminal cases against him—of her own free will.
