Court orders: CCPO given till Jan 2 to submit report

SHO hasn’t registered an FIR against man for forging wife’s signatures on divorce deed despite court orders.

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday gave the CCPO till January 2, 2013 to tell the court what action had been taken against an SHO for not complying with court orders.

Judge Hamid Hussain had earlier asked the police officer to take action against the Gujjarpura SHO, for not registering a case against a man who is accused of forging his wife’s signatures and thumbprints on the divorce deed.

The SHO had been ordered by the court, in June and then again in November, to register a case against the petitioner’s husband.

The petitioner Amina Shehbaz says that her husband Sajjad Hussain, whom she married in March 2011, had had berated her for bearing a girl child to which she had said that it was “God’s will”. He had then kicked her out of the house after a beating “for not giving birth to a boy”.



She went to her parents’ place and after a few days, received signed divorce documents. The deed said that the divorce was with the couple’s agreement. She said she had neither signed any papers nor given her consent. She alleged that her husband had forged her signatures and that the thumb impression on the papers was also someone else’s.

She told the court that she had gone to the SHO concerned to get an FIR registered but he had ignored her request.

In June 2012, the judge had directed the SHO to register a case against Hussain but he did not. When the petitioner filed a compliance petition seeking implementation of court’s order, the judge again directed the SHO to register an FIR but the official did not. In November 2012, the CCPO was directed by the judge to take departmental action against the SHO for not complying with court orders despite issuance of the notices. The judge had also directed the CCPO to submit a compliance report.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2012.