Happy ending: Judge reproaches girl for betraying family
Warden’s wife chooses to go with him.
LAHORE:
A woman who had married against her family’s wishes and had been illegally detained by them was allowed to go with her husband on Friday – but not without a bit of chiding by the judge.
Okara district police officer presented Maryam Lashari in the Lahore High Court after recovering her from the custody of her family. Lashari married Humayun Shahzad, a traffic warden, against her family’s wishes.
When the proceedings started, the judge asked the girl why she had betrayed her parents who had looked after her for so many years. “You should have concentrated on your studies and left the decision about your marriage to your family,” the judge told her.
When he asked the girl who she wanted to go with, Maryam chose her husband, Humayun Shahzad. Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu then allowed her to do so and disposed of the petition.
The judge had detained Okara’s City Circle DSP and an SHO for four hours, during the last hearing, after they failed to recover the girl.
Shahzad had filed a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of his wife.
The petitioner had submitted, through his counsel Asghar Ali Gill, that he had married Lashari without the consent of her family three years ago. Later, they had invited her home and said that they would send her back after a few days. But instead they detained her. He said that the girl’s family was trying to force her to seek a divorce from him. He had said that his wife’s life was in danger and that his in-laws had also been threatening him.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2011.
A woman who had married against her family’s wishes and had been illegally detained by them was allowed to go with her husband on Friday – but not without a bit of chiding by the judge.
Okara district police officer presented Maryam Lashari in the Lahore High Court after recovering her from the custody of her family. Lashari married Humayun Shahzad, a traffic warden, against her family’s wishes.
When the proceedings started, the judge asked the girl why she had betrayed her parents who had looked after her for so many years. “You should have concentrated on your studies and left the decision about your marriage to your family,” the judge told her.
When he asked the girl who she wanted to go with, Maryam chose her husband, Humayun Shahzad. Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu then allowed her to do so and disposed of the petition.
The judge had detained Okara’s City Circle DSP and an SHO for four hours, during the last hearing, after they failed to recover the girl.
Shahzad had filed a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of his wife.
The petitioner had submitted, through his counsel Asghar Ali Gill, that he had married Lashari without the consent of her family three years ago. Later, they had invited her home and said that they would send her back after a few days. But instead they detained her. He said that the girl’s family was trying to force her to seek a divorce from him. He had said that his wife’s life was in danger and that his in-laws had also been threatening him.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2011.