A judicial magistrate on Wednesday sent four sisters to Darul Aman after they said they had not been kidnapped. They said they had fled from their home on Tuesday after their father tried to sell one of them.
The girls aged 21, 20, 18 and 15, were produced before the court of Magistrate Rana Shabir Hussain on Wednesday after they were recovered from Baddomalhi, Narowal.
They told the court their father beat them and cursed them for bringing him bad luck. They said their father was planning to sell them and had also brought a man to the house to choose one of them.
They said that the kidnap complaint by their father against their relatives Muhammad Behram and Muhammad Waqas, who have been arrested, was false.
They requested the court to let them go with the relatives, who accompanied them to the court, but the court ordered them to be taken to Darul Aman following their refusal to a return to their home.
Chaudhry Abid Hussain Dayal, appearing for girls, said that his clients were entitled to make their own decisions. Overruling the counsel’s stance, the court sent them to Darul Aman, escorted by the police.
One of the girls told The Express Tribune a middle-aged man had accompanied their father to their home on June 20. She said the man was brought to the sisters’ room and asked to ‘choose the one he liked.’ When they started crying and shouting, she said, their father asked the man to leave. She said his father beat them and their mother for spoiling his ‘deal.’ She said their mother advised them to leave the house and go to some relatives in Narowal.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2011.
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