Domestic Violence: Beaten up ‘for bearing girl again’

HEAD MARALA: A woman had to be taken to hospital, on Sunday night, with severe injuries after she was beaten up, allegedly by her husband and brothers-in-law. Her family says she was beaten up for bearing a girl. According to the FIR registered with the Kotli Loharan police, Sumra, 22, was kicked out of the house by her husband Rashid and brothers-in-law Shahbaz, Shabbir and Irshad. They told police that Sumra’s in-laws were upset with her because she gave birth to a girl a few days ago. They said that Sumra’s husband and his family had kicked her out a year ago too when she gave birth to their first daughter. “They said the daughter would bring bad luck,” said Sumra’s family. The matter had been resolved after neighbours intervened.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2012.