Petitioner Muhammad Naeem submitted that Dr Rana Muhammad Asif had sold his daughter shortly after she was born and then offered
him and his wife Rs100,000 to keep quiet about it. PHOTO: FILE
An additional district and sessions judge has sought comments from the Shahdara Town station house officer (SHO) on a petition filed by a man seeking a case against a doctor for allegedly selling his newborn.
Petitioner Muhammad Naeem submitted that Dr Rana Muhammad Asif had sold his daughter shortly after she was born and then offered him and his wife Rs100,000 to keep quiet about it. He sought the court’s help for his daughter’s return.
The petitioner said that his wife Sana Naeem was admitted to the Rana Hospital Society Foundation near the Matches Factory on October 28 and gave birth to a baby girl. Dr Asif, he said, told them that the baby needed a blood transfusion and that there was a problem with her head.
The petitioner said that Dr Asif drove them to a place on Wandala Road where he met with a woman and handed her over their baby, saying that she would nurse the newborn and return her to the couple after three days.
But when they met the doctor again after three days, Naeem said, he started making excuses about why the baby had not been returned yet. He eventually admitted that he had sold their daughter, the petitioner said, and he offered them Rs100,000 to keep quiet about it.
The petitioner alleged that the doctor and his staff were “professional child-sellers” and they should be prosecuted. He said that he had approached the Shahdara Town SHO to lodge a complaint, but the officer refused to register a case. He asked the court to direct the SHO to register a case against Dr Asif and to recover his child.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 3rd, 2013.
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In any civilized country the person lodging the complain in a police station will never be refused or turned away by the police officers. It is time that federal government in Pakistan legislate a law to make every police station in the country to register the case regardless how frivolous it could be. people lodging frivolous or false cases could also be prosecuted for falsifying. It is just mind boggling that SHO thinks that he is the master of that area and every thing goes on his discretion, SHO should be subordinate to the people and not the other way around. If the doctor and his associates are found guilty for selling the baby, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and make them an example so no one else will be thinking the same.