Greedy father: SHO directed not to harass petitioners

Petitioners said they feared they would be killed by their father.

LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Malik Tariq Mehmood Zargham on Tuesday directed the Liaqatabad SHO not to harass two girls. Petitioners Maria and Maryum submitted to the court that they left their house in 2009 by their own free will after their father had tried to sell one of them to an old man. They said they feared they would be killed by their father.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 24^th, 2012.