PESHAWAR, May 25: Additional District and Sessions Judge Shehbar Khan on Wednesday rejected the bail application of a man charged with keeping in illegal confinement his two sisters-in-law and sexually abusing one of them. The court observed that the applicant did not deserve bail.

The applicant, Shehzad, was charged in an FIR registered at the University Town police station on April 27, after a court bailiff recovered the girls from his residence.

The step-father of the applicant, Khan Bacha, who is a former deputy superintendent of police, is charged with abetment in the case.

The mother of the sisters, Riasat Begum, had filed a habeas corpus petition with the Peshawar district and sessions judge in March 2005, stating that her son-in-law had kept her two daughters in illegal confinement.

She stated that her daughter, Mehreen, who is wife of Shehzad, was ill and she along with her daughters went to their residence to inquire after her health.

Riasat Begum stated that when she was returning home Shehzad forcibly stopped 20-year-old Ambreen and 14-year-old Bushra.

She claimed that the accused was demanding money for their release.

On her complaint, the district and sessions judge deputed a bailiff who recovered the girls from Shehzad’s residence.

Ambreen alleged that she had been sexually abused during the confinement and Bushra recorded her statement before the judicial magistrate as an eye-witness.

Tafseel Khan Afridi advocate argued that the medical report confirmed that the victim had been sexually abused.

He contended that the girls were recovered from the residence of the accused and prima facie the evidence on record proved that he was involved in the commission of the offence.