Day: July 14, 2022

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Dua-Zaheer’s nikah registrar still behind bars

The Additional Sessions Judge, Sharqi, has issued a written order regarding the rejection of bail pleas of Nikah Registrar Maulana Ghulam Mustafa and witness Asghar in the case of alleged kidnapping of Dua Zahra.

The judge said in a written order that verification of documents is required to determine the age at the time of marriage.

The provision of documents duly certified by NADRA and other certified documents are required to be examined at the time of marriage.

According to the medical board, the girl is 15 years old. The nikah registrar performed the nikah on the basis of oral statement. Asghar’s reputation as a marriage witness is also not impressive. The serious crime of kidnapping can have a negative effect on the psychology of the abductee. The abductee’s family faces public embarrassment as well.

According to the written order, the prosecution had said that the accused Ghulam Mustafa allegedly performed the nikah. Ghulam Asghar was the witness of the marriage.

As per the written order, the police had said that Zaheer Ahmed had married Dua Zahra. According to the medical report, the abducted Dua Zahra is 15 to 16 years old.

According to documents and medical report and police papers, Dua Zahra is 15 years old. The court ruled that the accused had fundamental rights and that the police had the right to investigate.

The Judicial Magistrate has also ordered submission of supplementary challan of the case. Therefore, the accused have filed a bail application ahead of time. This kind of heinous crime is not against any individual but against the whole society. Bail application is rejected in the light of existing documents, the court order read.

Source: The Express Tribune

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Woman killed in Larkana couple attack

SUKKUR: A woman was killed and her husband injured when they were attacked in Larkana while on their way back home after attending a court on Wednesday.

A couple, including Marvi Gadahi and her spouse Jawad Ahmed, were on their way back home after attending the court of the Additional Session Judge-IV Larkana, when they were ambushed at Christian Basti in Larkana.

As a result, both the wife and husband were critically injured and were shifted to the Civil Hospital Larkana, where Marvi Gadahi succumbed to her injuries, while the condition of Jawad was said to be critical.

SHO Civil Line Police Station, Larkana said Marvi, resident of Meero Khan, had held court marriage with Jawad Ahmed, resident of the Bahawalpur in 2020, however, her parents had lodged an FIR of kidnapping against Jawad Ahmed at the Civil Line Police Station Larkana.

Source: The News

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10 booked for torture, public humiliation of woman

TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad’s Balochni police on Wednesday booked 10 people, including two women, for allegedly torturing a woman and tearing down her clothes publicly after her husband lodged a theft complaint nominating one of the suspects.

According to the FIR registered under sections 354-A, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), complainant Rehana Tariq of Jaranwala tehsil’s Chak 69-RB village stated that her husband Tariq Mahmood had lodged a theft complaint with police against one Murtaza and his accomplice.

She alleged that enraged by the complaint, Murtaza, along with seven men and two women barged into her house when she was alone.

The complainant said the suspects dragged her into the street, pulling her hair, and not only subjected her to torture, but also tore down her clothes, leaving her naked in the public.

On her complaint, police registered a case against the 10 suspects.

Meanwhile, a press release said that City Police Officer Ali Nasir Rizwi took notice of the incident and on his orders police immediately raided the suspects’ houses arresting three of them — Murtaza, Wasim and Ranjha.

It quoted the CPO as saying that raids were being conducted to arrest the remaining seven suspects.

INJURED: At least 13 persons, including women and a minor girl, were injured in a brawl over a monetary dispute between two rival groups at Faisalabad’s Chak 239, RB Harla village on Makoana-Khanuana bypass on Wednesday.

According to police, both sides used clubs and bricks against each other, leaving 13 persons, including 10-year-old Zainab, Shahnaz (35), Azam (45) and Safia (30), seriously injured.

Rescue 1122 reported that the injured persons were shifted to the district headquarters hospital.

Police are looking into the matter.

Source: Dawn

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Four women abducted in Wah

TAXILA: Four women were abducted in three different incidents in Wah on Wednesday.

Asfand reported to police that his teenage sister along with her cousin was going to some relatives’ house when unknown persons abducted her.

Iftikhar Ahmed reported to police that his wife was going to her parents’ house when she was abducted while Farzana Bibi reported to police that her teenage daughter was going to visit some friends when she was abducted by an unknown person.

Source: Dawn

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Woman gets pre-arrest bail in ‘adultery’ case

PESHAWAR: A local court on Wednesday granted pre-arrest bail to a woman named in an ‘adultery’ case.

While ordering the production of two surety bonds of Rs80, 000 each by the 19-year-old, the additional district and session’s judge directed the police not to arrest her.

The woman’s husband, who is the prime accused in the case, is behind bars and faces the charge of kidnapping her as well.

Initially, her mother had alleged that the main accused, his brother and parents had kidnapped her daughter in Peshawar’s Saddar area on Oct 13, 2020, to force her into marriage.

She had told police that she had left home to take her little children to school but found her daughter (petitioner) missing on return.

The police later booked the complainant’s daughter on ‘adultery’ charge for marrying the Christian prime accused. However, the accused claimed that he had converted to Islam ahead of the marriage.

Advocate Nauman Muhib Kakakhel appeared for the petitioner and contended that the charge against his client and her husband was baseless.

Referring to fatwas (edicts) issued by various schools of Islam, he insisted that after conversion of a non-Muslim man to Islam, a Muslim woman could marry him.

The lawyer insisted that the husband of the petitioner was Muslim and therefore, their marriage was lawful.

He also said that the nikkah (marriage) of his client and her husband was solemnized in accordance with the teachings of Islam.

The counsel said the husband of the petitioner changed his name after conversion to Islam, while their child, too, and had a Muslim name.

He argued that his client’s husband was a convert to Islam, so he should be considered to be Muslim in line with the teaching of the Holy Quran and Hadees and that nobody could accused him of holding old faith, Christianity.

Source: Dawn

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