Man accused of marrying two sisters

LHC orders production of couple on July 19

LAHORE:

Lahore High Court’s Justice Ali Baqar Najafi has ordered the police to produce a couple on July 16 after a man filed a petition for the recovery of his daughter from the custody of her sister’s husband.

The petitioner, Abdul Rasheed, accused his son-in-law Maqsood Ali of marrying his younger daughter while he was already married to her elder sister. Talking to The Express Tribune, Abdul Rasheed said the accused had married his second daughter without divorcing the first one.

He said Maqsood had told the family while serving them sweets that he was leaving for Karachi to start a business. However, the family members fell unconscious after eating the sweets. The complainant said that when they regained consciousness, he found his teenage daughter Khadija missing along with the son-in-law.

The family tried to contact Maqsood but he did not attend the phone calls.

Later, Maqsood told them that he was returning home and he had married the sister of his wife Bushra.

Bushra was shocked when she was told about the situation. She asked how her husband could marry her sister without divorcing her. Finally, Bushra was sent back to her parents’ home, while Khadija was living with Maqsood, the father of the women said.

Abdul Rasheed said two FIRs had been registered against Maqsood and others in a police station of Kasur. He said he had lodged a report against his son-in law and others for abducting Khadija on August 22, 2019. Bushra lodged another FIR against her husband for solemnising nikah with her sister without divorcing her. She had approached the district and sessions court in Kasur for registration of the FIR after the police did not do so.

Talking to The Express Tribune, police ASI Amanat said the couple was missing but would be traced and produced before the court.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2020.