Tayyaba case: Judge’s wife granted interim bail

ISLAMABAD: The district judge at the centre of a controversy surrounding the alleged torture of a 10-year-old housemaid has obtained pre-arrest bail.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Asif Mehmood granted interim bail to his fellow judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan against surety bonds of Rs30,000. The same judge had also granted bail to Khan’s wife Maheen Zafar, the main accused in the case. The court will decide the judge’s bail application on January 26.

Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar were booked on December 29 after the 10-year-old victim accused them of keeping her in wrongful confinement, burning her hand, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in a storeroom. A police team headed by DIG Operations Kashif Alam is investigating the case against the judge and his wife.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2017.