Report GH Farooqui, Chitral
A helpless woman was released from the district prison Chitral on the intervention of Easy & Equitable Access to Justice Programme. Hajira Bibi was implicated by her husband's brothers in a fake case under section 457 of Pakistan Panel Code and section 18 of Zina Ordinance.
She was arrested by Mulkoh police but the man with whom she was alleged to have illicit relations remained at large. The father of Hajira appealed to local human rights activists for pursuing her case free of cost, saying she was innocent and had been implicated by her brothers-in-law who had some land dispute with her husband.
The case was under trial at the court of Additional Sessions Judge Orangzeb Khan. Prominent Lawyer Niaz A. Niazi appeared in the court on behalf of the woman while Assistant Public Prosecutor Mohammad Afzal represented the prosecution. The judge after hearing arguments of both the parties ordered the woman release. The human rights activists later got the woman released from the jail and handed over her to her father.
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- Village Dizg, Yarkhun valley, Chitral, Pakistan
- I blog at http://chitraltoday.net (ChitralToday) about Chitral, its people, culture, traditions and issues. I have been writing about Chitral since 2000. Chitral is a scenic valley in the extreme north-west of Pakistan.
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