GUJRAT: A woman who was believed to be murdered by her husband as per a case lodged by her mother with Sohawa police of Jhelum eight years ago, surfaced on Thursday with her second husband and six children.

Jhelum police arrested that woman, Asma Bibi (around 30) and her second husband since the woman had contracted the second marriage without divorce from the first husband.

Jhelum Police spokesman inspector Chaudhry Ulfat told Dawn that Asma, of village Phalayan, had been married to Ibrar Ahmed, of Kharka Khengran, some nine years ago. In 2010, she went missing and her mother had reported to the police that her daughter had been murdered by Ibrar upon which the police had registered a case against the suspect under section 302/34 of Pakistan Penal Code.

Asma was believed to be murdered eight years ago

Later, the complainant exonerated Ibrar of charges.

Sohawa police came to know on Thursday that Asma had been at her village and had changed her identity as Neelam Bibi. She had eloped with Nazeer Ahmed of her native village.

After the second marriage, she went to Dubai and gave birth to six children there.

Police booked her along with her second husband under sections 494 and 420 of Pakistan Penal Code and also took into custody their six children.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2018