Divorce issue: Catfight at the courts

The quarrelling women have been released, police says.

LAHORE:

A scuffle between a group of women relatives broke out on the premises of the district and sessions courts on Wednesday after a woman asked her husband to divorce her.

The husband Muhammad Yasir, on trial for a murder, was at the court to attend the court proceedings. Yasir’s mother Shahida Bibi, sister Salma Bibi, Salma Bibi’s brother-in-law Imran and Yasir’s wife Zainab Bibi attended the hearing.

Later, Zainab Bibi and her mother Farzana Bibi tried to talk to Yasir about divorcing Zainab Bibi. Yasir refused to do so.

Zainab Bibi told The Express Tribune that she was trying to persuade Yasir to divorce her when Shahida Bibi used abusive language against her. That’s when the catfight began, she said.

Several passersby said that Shahida Bibi and Salma Bibi first beat up Zainab Bibi and her mother. The women slapped and kicked each other. The passersby said no men wanted to intervene physically so they called the police. The police arrested the four women and Imran and took them to Islampura police station.

Islampura Moharrar Muhammad Bilal said the matter was resolved later and the women had been allowed to leave.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 24^th, 2014.