Police on Friday were directed to retrieve the ‘husband’ in an alleged same-sex marriage case from Lahore for a hearing.
A single-member bench of the Lahore High Court-Rawalpindi Bench, comprising Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan on Friday heard a case on the alleged same-sex marriage between a woman and her teenaged student.
During Friday’s hearing, Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Ahsan Younus appeared before the court.
The defendant failed to appear before the court yet again, but his lawyer, Nadeem Haider, did. Haider explained to the court that his client’s novel coronavirus (Covid-19) test had come back as negative after which doctors suggested that he was probably suffering from typhoid and have advised him complete rest for 10 days.
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Hence, the groom could not appear before the court. A medical report in this regard was also submitted to the court.
The court then ordered the police to provide security to the ‘husband’ Asma Bibi - who changed her name to Ali Akash after claiming to have undergone a gender reassignment surgery to become a man.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 25th, 2020.
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