Lorena Bobbit was here: No bail for family charged with slicing man’s genitals
The suspects escaped from the court after the decision was announced.
KARACHI:
A District and Sessions Judge rejected on Friday the bail plea of a teenage girl and her three family members who were charged with slicing off a man’s genitals.
Justice Munawar Sultana, 2nd Additional District and Sessions Judge, Malir, dismissed the bail application and recalled the interim order after hearing the arguments of lawyers. However, the suspects escaped from the court after the decision was announced.
According to the victim’s lawyer, Riaz Ahmed Bhatti, the girl and her family members escaped from the court because the investigation officer was not present. The court had sent him a notice to appear but he replied that he could not come as he was busy before another court.
“The bail has been rejected on humanitarian grounds,” said the counsel for the girl. Her lawyer, Irshad Ali Sher, said that the victim stated in his first statement in the police station that he was injured after he fell from a height and had admitted the same thing in his statement under section 161 Criminal Procedure Court (Crpc) as well.
Sher said that under section 100 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) if a man tries to rape a woman and she kills him it would not be considered an offence, adding that according to the Women Protection Act, a woman should be granted bail unless she kills someone but this has not happened in this case.
Sher added that the father of the girl is over 60 and under subsection 1 of the 497 of the Criminal Procedure Court, if a man is over 60 years of age, he should be granted bail. Sher said that now they have no option but to file an appeal in the Sindh High Court.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2012.
A District and Sessions Judge rejected on Friday the bail plea of a teenage girl and her three family members who were charged with slicing off a man’s genitals.
Justice Munawar Sultana, 2nd Additional District and Sessions Judge, Malir, dismissed the bail application and recalled the interim order after hearing the arguments of lawyers. However, the suspects escaped from the court after the decision was announced.
According to the victim’s lawyer, Riaz Ahmed Bhatti, the girl and her family members escaped from the court because the investigation officer was not present. The court had sent him a notice to appear but he replied that he could not come as he was busy before another court.
“The bail has been rejected on humanitarian grounds,” said the counsel for the girl. Her lawyer, Irshad Ali Sher, said that the victim stated in his first statement in the police station that he was injured after he fell from a height and had admitted the same thing in his statement under section 161 Criminal Procedure Court (Crpc) as well.
Sher said that under section 100 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) if a man tries to rape a woman and she kills him it would not be considered an offence, adding that according to the Women Protection Act, a woman should be granted bail unless she kills someone but this has not happened in this case.
Sher added that the father of the girl is over 60 and under subsection 1 of the 497 of the Criminal Procedure Court, if a man is over 60 years of age, he should be granted bail. Sher said that now they have no option but to file an appeal in the Sindh High Court.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2012.