Woman 'abducted' in Islamabad denies being kidnapped

Informs court she has converted to Islam and married a man, also a convert

ISLAMABAD: A judicial magistrate on Saturday cleared a man who had been accused of kidnapping a woman from the area. He was cleared after the woman in question told the police that she had gone with him voluntarily.

Margalla police had booked three men, including Khalid Masih, and three women for allegedly kidnapping a married woman last month on the complaint of the woman’s first husband. Police had subsequently apprehended Masih.



The victim, however, informed the police that she had left her home of her own free will, converted to Islam from Christianity and married a Christian man who had also converted. On Saturday, police produced the victim along with Masih before Judicial Magistrate Jawad Hussain Aadil.

After victim repeated her statement in court that she was not kidnapped and that Khalid did not have anything to do with the case, the magistrate discharged him from the case.

A police investigator told The Express Tribune that all of the suspects, the complainant, the alleged victim and the man she had now married, all belonged to a Christian community in Faisalabad. They worked in the capital as sanitation workers or other such jobs.

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