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 handed back to her family after a court rejected a request to move her to a shelter home. The woman went missing and was allegedly lured into a relationship in Gujranwala, where she was pressured to convert to Islam and marry a local man. CCTV footage showed unidentified individuals taking her and valuables during a night in late August.
Her family lodged a complaint with Sanghar police, who then informed their counterparts in Punjab. Eminabad police in Gujranwala recovered the woman and presented her to a judicial magistrate on Monday. The investigating officer filed a request for the woman to be sent to Darul Aman for safe custody, claiming she was unwilling to return home. However, her lawyers opposed the police request, stating she was willing to go with her brother and wanted to record her statement.
The woman, under oath, expressed her desire to return to her parents' home and claimed she faced no threats and was not under pressure during her statement. The magistrate acknowledged her recorded statement and denied the police's request to send her to Darul Aman. She was allowed to reunite with her brother and return to her parents' home in Sanghar, with support from Sanghar police personnel.
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