By Ejaz Arshad Cheema
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police has booked wife of a civil judge in for allegedly torturing a 14-year-old teenage girl working at her home as maid.
Sources said that Police Station (PS) Humak on Tuesday registered a FIR against the wife of civil judge, Chaudhry Asim Hafeez, under sections 506/342 of Pakistani Penal Code (PPC) on complaint of Manga Khan, the father of victim housemaid.
The victim housemaid has been identified as Rizwana, who later on shifted to hospital for medical treatment, they said. Some legal experts claimed that the police had allegedly inserted weak sections in the FIR instead of relevant laws that attract to nature of injuries caused by use of some blunt weapon by the accused wife of judge.
According to sources, Manga Khan, a resident of Street No 16 Jinnah Colony Sargodha, lodged a complaint with PS Humak, stating that a civil judge Asim Hafeez had employed her 14-year-old daughter, Rizwana as housemaid through Chaudhry Mukhtar, the person known to him (applicant), in his house located at Zaraj Housing Society on GT Road against Rs 10000 monthly wage.
He told police that Ms Somayya, the wife of judge, made his daughter to talk to her mother once or twice in a month on phone. The applicant said he, along with his wife Shamim and brother in law Muhammad Fayyaz, reached at house of judge on 23/7/2023 to meet their daughter.
“As I stepped in the house of judge, I heard screams of my daughter coming out from a room. We rushed to the room where we saw she was lying on floor in injured condition,” said Manga Khan, adding that there were wounds on the head, face, legs and body of his daughter.
“Her teeth were also broken and there were bruise on her neck as if somebody attempted to suffocate her to death. Her ribs were also broken,” said father of the girl in his application he filed with the police.
He said that his daughter told him her landlord Somayya had beating her with sticks and steel spoons and not providing her food for many days. “The landlord lady had been detaining me in the room without food and water since I joined the duty,” the ill-fated father quoted his daughter as saying.
He said that the landlord lady had thrown Rizwana in the room in injured condition instead of taking her to the hospital, due to which the girl got worms in her wounds. The applicant appealed police to register case against the accused and to arrest her.
Police filed case and began investigation with no arrest so far. A spokesman to Inspector General of Police Islamabad said that police have registered a case against the accused in complaint of father of victim girl. He said police have also launched a manhunt for arrest of accused.
“The case will be probed purely on merit and the accused will be brought to justice as per law,” he said.
