ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: A citizen of Pakistan on Thursday filed an application in Human Rights Cell of the Supreme Court, to take steps for the recovery of a groom and bride, who were abducted in the first week of September.

According to documents available with Dawn, complainant Ghulam Abass has stated that M.I. resident of Rajhana district, Toba Tek Singh (Punjab) married S.S., resident of Dhoro Naro near Umar Kot (Sindh). It was a marriage of choice.

S.S., who was 24 years old, came to Rajhana but M.I’s family refused to keep the girl at home. So both went to Lahore and got married on July 10, 2012.

M.I. started a job in a factory but family of S.S. started threatening them due to which the couple shifted to Chok Azam, Tehsil in district Layyah.

Ghulam Abass, while talking to Dawn said: “The couple stayed in my neighbourhood and they also sought court orders from district court and Lahore High Court that they had married with their own will and they should not be separated.”

“In the first week of September, the couple went to Lahore as they wanted to get police protection but disappeared from there. I was worried about them and tried to search them but failed to find them,” he said.

“Four days ago, I received a call from S.S.; she told me that she and her husband were kidnapped from Lahore and were shifted to Dhoro Naro. S.S. said that her family members tortured M.I. and there was a possibility that he would have been murdered,” he said.

Abbas further said that he has the recording of the girl’s phone call in which she alleged that her family members might have murdered M.I. and she appealed for her recovery.

Complainant has appealed to the Supreme Court to give directions for the recovery of the abducted and protect S.S. from her family members, which are about to murder her and also pass a direction for the family members of S.S. to restrain from violence, in the interest of justice.