Court hands Hindu woman to family after alleged forced conversion and marriage
LAHORE: A 21-year-old Hindu woman from Sanghar district in Sindh, who was allegedly lured into a relationship and persuaded to convert to Islam by a man from Gujranwala in Punjab, was handed back into her family’s custody after a judicial magistrate on Monday rejected a police request to shift her to a shelter home. The woman went missing from her hometown. Sanghar police registered an FIR on the…
In Lahore, a 21-year-old Hindu woman from Sanghar district in Sindh was returned to her family after a judicial magistrate dismissed a police request to transfer her to a shelter home. The woman went missing, prompting the Sanghar police to file an FIR on the complaint of her brother. CCTV footage showed unidentified individuals forcibly taking her, along with valuables and mobile phones, from their residence between August 23 and 24.
Her family alleged that she was lured to Gujranwala, pressured to convert to Islam and marry a local man who was already married. Eminabad police in Punjab recovered the woman and presented her before a judicial magistrate. The investigating officer requested the magistrate to send the woman to Darul Aman, claiming she was unwilling to return home.
However, her lawyers argued that she was willing to go with her parents, present in court, and wanted to record her statement. The magistrate allowed the woman to return to her parents' home in Sanghar, rejecting the police's request to send her to the shelter.
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