Three months pregnant wife suffers miscarriage as a result of the incident. PHOTO: REUTERS
HARIPUR: A judicial magistrate Friday cancelled the bail before the arrest of a police constable who had been accused of subjecting his wife to severe torture leading to her miscarriage.
Khalabat police said that Sarfraz, a constable with the Haripur Elite Force and a resident of Khalabat Township had allegedly beaten his wife over a minor issue last week. As a result of which she, being three months pregnant at the time, suffered a miscarriage.
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She had subsequently filed a complaint against her husband with the Khalabat police who registered a criminal case against police personnel under section 328 of Pakistan Penal Code.
However, Sarfaraz obtained bail-before-arrest from the court.
On Friday, a district court cancelled his bail. He was subsequently arrested and sent to the Haripur jail on judicial remand.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 25th, 2017.
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