PESHAWAR, May 31: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court here on Friday quashed an FIR registered by a person against his wife and her four close relatives under the Hudood Ordinance.

The bench, comprising Justice Tariq Pervaiz and Justice Qazi Ahsanullah Qureshi, accepted a writ petition filed by Ms Baacha Izzat, after she appeared before the court and stated that she had been residing with her parents and had taken divorce from her husband, Muhammad Alam.

The petitioner had filed the petition for quashment of an FIR registered by her former husband against her and her father, Jamshed, sister Ms Bacha Jehan and two uncles, Shaukat and Amir Khan.

In the FIR registered with Mingorah Police Station on Oct 27, 2000, Muhammad Alam had claimed that his wife had eloped with Shaukat and Amir Khan. The FIR was registered under the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979.

Ms Bacha Izzat informed the court that the two persons charged in the FIR were her uncles. She stated that she was a dancing girl by profession. She said the the complainant, Muhammad Alam, fell in love with her and married her.

She said her husband was forcing her to leave her profession but she was not ready to leave it. She added that she filed a suit for dissolution of her marriage before a family court, due to which her husband registered the impugned FIR. She requested the court to quash the FIR as it was registered on the basis of mala fide on part of her ex-husband.