PESHAWAR, Jan 27: The district and sessions judge, Mr Hayat Ali Shah, on Thursday sent a young woman back to a shelter home again after she refused to go with her husband.
The court directed that Ms Musarrat should stay for 15 days at Mera Ghar, the shelter home run by the Aurat Foundation.
Ms Musarrat was sent to the shelter on Jan 12 when she was produced before the court in a habeas corpus application filed by her mother who had alleged that her daughter's husband, Iftikhar Khan, had kept her in illegal confinement.
The judge had sent Ms Musarrat to the shelter home with the directive that she should be produced before the court after counselling for 15 days following which she would be in a better position to make a proper decision.
On Thursday, she again refused to accompany her husband, saying that he had engineered a concocted case against her mother. The judge advised her to make a proper decision regarding her life and said that he would not issue any order which would ruin her life.
Musarrat's mother, Hidayat Bibi, is behind bars as her husband, Wazir Khan, had registered an FIR charging her with adultery. In April 1997, Hidayat Bibi had killed her first husband, Khaista Khan, and an assistant sub-inspector of police, Roshan Khan, at her residence in Ghareebabad.
She was convicted by a court in 1998 and was sentenced to about two months prison as she had committed the murders in self-defence. She had alleged that Khaista Khan wanted her to 'accompany' the ASI.
