Free-will marriage: Missing girl claims she left home with husband
" When we failed to convince my parents, Ibrahim and I decided to elope," Gul Fahema Bibi.
HARIPUR:
A teenaged girl who had disappeared from home appeared before a judicial magistrate and claimed that she had left to marry the man of her choice under the law, rejecting the charges levelled against her husband in an FIR registered by the police.
She refuted the allegation of her parents and said that she had married the man of her own free will in the statement recorded before the court of judicial magistrate here on Friday.
After Gul Fahema Bibi, 18, went missing from her house in Mohalla Haji Imam Pir Sera-e-Saleh, her mother Gulshan Bibi lodged an FIR against Muhammad Ibrahim of Charsadda for allegedly abducting her daughter on February 25.
When the police arrested family members of the accused, Ibrahim appeared before the court with Gul Fahema Bibi, on Friday, where they recorded their statements before judicial magistrate, Rashid Rauf Swati.
Gul Fahema told the court that their nikah had been solemnised on February 16, but her parents would not agree to send her with her spouse.
“When we failed to convince my parents, Ibrahim and I decided to elope,” she informed the court. She said she was married to Ibrahim under the law of the land and wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
The court ordered the police to quash the FIR against Ibrahim registered under section 365-B.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2012.
A teenaged girl who had disappeared from home appeared before a judicial magistrate and claimed that she had left to marry the man of her choice under the law, rejecting the charges levelled against her husband in an FIR registered by the police.
She refuted the allegation of her parents and said that she had married the man of her own free will in the statement recorded before the court of judicial magistrate here on Friday.
After Gul Fahema Bibi, 18, went missing from her house in Mohalla Haji Imam Pir Sera-e-Saleh, her mother Gulshan Bibi lodged an FIR against Muhammad Ibrahim of Charsadda for allegedly abducting her daughter on February 25.
When the police arrested family members of the accused, Ibrahim appeared before the court with Gul Fahema Bibi, on Friday, where they recorded their statements before judicial magistrate, Rashid Rauf Swati.
Gul Fahema told the court that their nikah had been solemnised on February 16, but her parents would not agree to send her with her spouse.
“When we failed to convince my parents, Ibrahim and I decided to elope,” she informed the court. She said she was married to Ibrahim under the law of the land and wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
The court ordered the police to quash the FIR against Ibrahim registered under section 365-B.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2012.