Plea against daughter’s marriage rejected

Petitioner accused brother of abducting, marrying niece

LAHORE:

Lahore High Court’s Justice Mushtaq Ahmed has allowed a girl to go with her husband, rejecting her father’s claim that his brother had married her in violation of the Sharia.

Petitioner Muhammad Boota had filed a habeas corpus petition seeking recovery of his daughter and alleging that his brother had kept her in illegal detention.

However, during the proceedings he failed to prove that the girl was the real niece of the respondent. The girl told the court that she had made married the man who was not her real uncle. She said she wanted to go with her husband and no one had abducted her.

He contended that his younger brother had abducted daughter with the help of co-accused named in an FIR registered in Jalalpur Jattan police station in Gujrat district under section 365-B of PPC and solemnised Nikah with her on September 11, 2020. He also alleged that the girl was a minor. He sought the recovery of the girl from the accused living in Sargodha.

Talking to The Express Tribune, the respondent’s counsel Gohar Razzaq said the girl’s mother had contracted second marriage after the death of her husband and the respondent had been living with Boota’s father Nawab Ali who had also written his name in the column of father while applying for his CNIC, which had created confusion.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8^th, 2021.