Representative of Human Rights Commission in Muzaffargarh, Amjad Ali Amjad, demanded that the accused should be prosecuted in an anti-terrorism court and sections of terrorism should be added in the FIR.
Source/Credit: PakOnWeb / Express Tribune
By Edited by PakOnWeb | August 8, 2011
MULTAN: A Mother, along with her sister was paraded naked in the Khangarh subdistrict of Muzaffargarh for asking a girl’s hand in marriage for her son on Wednesday.
According to details, Jamila* Mai’s son wanted to marry Khadija, daughter of Bilal Arayin, who lived in their neighbourhood. Jamila, along with her sister, Rukhsana* Bibi, took her son’s proposal to Bilal’s house.
Bilal, who has connections with a feudal family, became angry on a “poor” family asking for his daughter’s hand in marriage. When the women arrived at his house, he locked them up in a room and called three of his friends – Abdul Ghaffar, Shahid and Irfan. The men tore the women’s clothes and recorded videos of them. Then they tied the women to a motorcycle rickshaw and paraded them naked in the area.
The women were paraded in the area of Adaa Liaquatabad and were brought to a local bus/wagon terminal to make their punishment public.
An eyewitness told The Express Tribune that the men kept on filming the women while parading them.
The men ran away, leaving the women naked on the road, when residents of the area started protesting against them. According to the residents, they could not do much as the men belonged to a feudal family.
Another eyewitness Muhammad Iqbal told The Express Tribune that the police was to blame because they were reluctant to take any official action against the men.
The police came to resolve the issue three hours after residents of the area protested and blocked the national highway by burning tyres. They raided Bilal’s house but he was not found and instead Abdul Ghaffar Arayin and his son Irfan Arayin were arrested.
An FIR has been lodged under Section 354-A, 148 and 149 in Khangarh Police Station against Abdul Ghaffar Arayin, Irfan Arayin, Irshad Arayin, Iqbal Arayin, Munir Hussain, Mureed Hussain and five other unknown criminals on the application of Jamila.
SHO Khangarh Police Station Kamal Mustafa told The Express Tribune that three teams have been constituted to arrest the accused.
The arrested men denied the marriage proposal story and said that they were told that the women had entered the house to rob them, so they decided to punish them.
Representative of Human Rights Commission in Muzaffargarh, Amjad Ali Amjad, demanded that the accused should be prosecuted in an anti-terrorism court and sections of terrorism should be added in the FIR. He added that the civil society and other political leaders should also join them in protests against the incident.
Sub Inspector Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool told The Express Tribunethat the incident involved a property dispute instead of a marriage proposal. He added that Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) local leader Amir Karamat gave protection to the women after the incident and brought them to the police station for legal activity.
*Names have been changed to protect identity
Original reporting by Express Tribune: By Awais Jafri: Women paraded naked after ‘asking for girl’s hand in marriage’ for son
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