KARACHI, June 14: The Sindh High Court asked a police superintendent on Tuesday to entrust the investigation of an abduction case involving an estranged couple to an honest and impartial official. Sub-inspector Abdul Hameed Arbab, who had been investigating a case registered on the complaint of Moulvi Abdul Rasheed, against two people for kidnapping his wife, Ms Zubaida, could not satisfy the court why he kept the kidnapped wife at different places for 10 days before bringing her to Karachi and producing her before a judicial magistrate.

Ms Zubaida, who was brought from Darul Aman and produced in the court on Tuesday, alleged in her petition that she was expelled by her husband, Moulvi Rasheed, who had no regular job nor means to maintain her and their child. She worked as a housemaid to earn her livelihood and returned to her native town D.G. Khan when thrown out by her husband. She filed a suit for dissolution of marriage at D.G. Khan when SI Hameed arrested her in an FIR lodged by her husband.

The FIR alleged that she had been abducted for rape by two kidnappers, who also took away Rs 100,000 from his house. She said she was not abducted and left Karachi for D.G. Khan without any money. But the SI forced her to accompany him on May 19.

He took her to different places and indulged in ‘excesses’ prior to producing her before a judicial magistrate in Karachi on May 29.