SHC issues notice to Jamia Binoria chief

SHC issues notice in case pertaining to alleged abduction of a Hindu teenage girl, who converted to Islam.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court issued notice on Friday to the head of Karachi’s Jamia Binoria International University and the Prosecutor General in a case pertaining to the alleged abduction of a Hindu teenage girl, who converted to Islam.

A division bench comprising Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi also called record and proceedings from the court of Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate, South, Karachi. Petitioners Dharo Mall and his wife Bhoori approached the court against the alleged abduction of their 15-year-old daughter, Poonam, and her forced conversion to Islam by some Muslims.

They cited Saifullah Rabbani, an officebearer of Jamia Binoria International, Farrah, Ayesha, Uzma, Abdul Ghani, Mullah Sultan Babur as respondents. Their counsel submitted that the respondents Farrah, Ayesha, Uzma, Abdul Ghani and Babur abducted the petitioners’ daughter and took her to Chakiwara. They filed an FIR of her abduction and nominated them as the accused. The police produced Poonam before the Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate, South, Karachi. The counsel stated that the JM sent her to Jamia Binoria instead of a Darul Aman.

According to the respondents, Poonam had prayed the court to send her to a seminary because she wanted to study there.

The petitioners prayed the court to order the production of their daughter from the seminary and order action against the private respondents for abducting her.

The SHC division bench issued notice to PG Sindh, Jamia Binoria International University and other respondents. It directed the office of the court to call the record and proceedings from the CJ&JM South, Karachi.

Published in The Express Tribune, October  2^nd, 2010.