Harassment: Plea against ‘extremists’ dismissed

LAHORE: An additional district and sessions on Monday dismissed for lack of prosecution a petition filed by a woman seeking a case against a group of people for threatening to kill her and trying to kidnap her daughter after accusing them of converting to Ahmadi faith, as the petitioner did not show up. Earlier, the court had twice directed the Faisal Town SHO to submit his comments on the matter but he had not done so. The petitioner had submitted that her family had moved to Lahore from Karachi to avoid some people who would ask her husband for protection money. She had said some religious bigots had also attacked their Karachi residence. On July 18, she said, she and her daughter were shopping at Lahore’s Model Town Link Road when some people tried to kidnap her daughter. She had said she believed that some religious organisations were behind the kidnapping bid. She said she had sought help from the SHO but he had done nothing in this regard. She had requested the court to direct the SHO to register an FIR in this regard.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23^rd, 2016.