Free-will marriage: Woman sent with her husband
District and Sessions Judge Sardar Ahmad Naeem ordered the police to provide the couple with adequate security.
MULTAN:
A Christian woman, who converted to Islam a few months ago and married, was allowed by a court on Tuesday to live with her husband.
District and Sessions Judge Sardar Ahmad Naeem ordered the police to provide the couple with adequate security. He also directed them to continue investigation in light of Mahwish Bibi’s statement, according to which she had married Hammad Ahmad of her own free will.
Mahwish Bibi’s father, Basheer Masih, had registered an abduction FIR against Ahmad and moved a petition in the Supreme Court saying that his daughter had been working at a beauty parlour in Gulgasht Colony, Multan. He had said she had been lured by Ahmad who later kidnapped her. He had requested that his daughter be recovered. The Supreme Court had referred the petition to the sessions court, directing that the girl be recovered.
Police produced Mahwish Bibi in court on Tuesday. The judge gave her an hour to decide who she wanted to live with. She said she had converted to Islam in October 2011 and married Ahmad in November of her own free will. She said that the FIR her father had registered
was unmerited.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2012.
A Christian woman, who converted to Islam a few months ago and married, was allowed by a court on Tuesday to live with her husband.
District and Sessions Judge Sardar Ahmad Naeem ordered the police to provide the couple with adequate security. He also directed them to continue investigation in light of Mahwish Bibi’s statement, according to which she had married Hammad Ahmad of her own free will.
Mahwish Bibi’s father, Basheer Masih, had registered an abduction FIR against Ahmad and moved a petition in the Supreme Court saying that his daughter had been working at a beauty parlour in Gulgasht Colony, Multan. He had said she had been lured by Ahmad who later kidnapped her. He had requested that his daughter be recovered. The Supreme Court had referred the petition to the sessions court, directing that the girl be recovered.
Police produced Mahwish Bibi in court on Tuesday. The judge gave her an hour to decide who she wanted to live with. She said she had converted to Islam in October 2011 and married Ahmad in November of her own free will. She said that the FIR her father had registered
was unmerited.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2012.