SUKKUR, July 7: The Sukkur circuit bench of Sindh High Court ordered Khairpur police on Friday to gate Shamshad Bhanbhan and her husband Khalid Shar checked by People’s Medical College, Nawabshah, to ascertain if she had had a miscarriage because of torture, and submit a report to the court on July 17.

The single-judge bench of Justice Ali Sain Dino Maitlo issued the orders after hearing the couple’s statements.

Ms Shamshad told the court that she had married Khalid Shar of her own free will on April 22 this year after obtaining divorce from her former husband, Sabbir Hussain.

She said that after her remarriage, one of his relatives, Dr Mumtaz Shar, contacted her on phone and said her daughters wanted to see her.

She came to Sukkur with her husband and stayed in a hotel to meet her daughters. That night Khairpur police put both of them under arrest after a raid and produced them the next day before the DPO of Khairpur, who handed her over to the “B” section police, and her husband to the Thari Mir Wah police, she said.

The following day her brother Saleem Pervaiz took her to her village, where Mandan Union Council Nazim Hazoor Bux Bhanbhan and Dr Mumtaz Shar tortured her and then administered an injection which induced misscarriage, she alleged.

Her husband Khalid Shar said in his statement that he was tortured by police during the custody. The court after hearing the statements ordered police to have the couple checked by People’s Medical College, Nawabshah, to ascertain if Ms Shamshad suffered a miscarriage and her husband was tortured.