Businessman’s daughter gets bail in Faisalabad girl torture case

Hearing in bail application of another accused adjourned until 24th

CHAK JHUMRA:

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has granted protective bail to Ana Ali Sheikh, the daughter of Sheikh Danish, who is the main suspect in the Khadija torture case, on submission of security bonds of Rs25,000 and ordered Ana Ali Sheikh to approach the Faisalabad court within four days.

The court also reprimanded Ana Ali Sheikh for her false statement in the court.

Ana Ali Sheikh had filed an application at the IHC for a protective bail on Friday afternoon through her counsel in which she stated that she had been living with her mother and grandmother in Islamabad for the past two years.

She also stated in the application that a case had been filed against her at the Women’s Police Station under the provisions of Section 42/22, but the fact was that she had not been present on the occasion at the time of the incident.

She was being harassed by the police for which protective bail should be granted to her. The Acting Chief Justice of the IHC, Justice Aamir Farooq, asked Ana Ali Sheikh and her counsel to provide evidence of her living in Islamabad since Ana Ali Sheikh's passport and identity card had an address of Faisalabad. After which the court had set the date of Monday, August 22, for further hearing.

Later, the court, granting protective bail to Ana Ali Sheikh on the submission of bonds of Rs25,000, ordered her to obtain a bail from the Faisalabad court within four days so that she could be made a part of interrogation process in the case.

Meanwhile, in Chak Jhumra the court of Additional and Sessions Judge Arif Ali Haider adjourned hearing till August 24 on the bail application of Maham, the main suspect in the Khadija torture case, due to the failure of the police to present the records in the court.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23^rd, 2022.