KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday remanded three suspects in judicial custody in a case pertaining to allegedly threatening a teenage girl with acid attack over her refusal to a marriage proposal.

Police arrested Waleed, Bilal and Saifullah and produced them before the judicial magistrate (Central) to seek their physical remand in police custody for interrogation and investigation.

The investigating officer of the case informed the court that the suspects were arrested after a woman lodged a complaint that they were threatening her daughter to burn her face with acid after she refused to accept Waleed’s marriage proposal.

She said that Waleed lived in their neighbourhood in Liaquatabad and he had sent a marriage proposal for her daughter but she declined the proposal since the former was already engaged. The IO further stated that upon refusal the suspects got infuriated and started threatening the complainant’s family.

The complainant said that Waleed phoned her daughter and threatened to burn her face with acid, the IO added.

The complainant further alleged that Bilal and Saifullah also started calling her daughter and sent her threatening and obscene messages, adding that the suspects also harassed her 13-year-old son when he stood up against them.

The IO requested the court to grant him 14-day police remand of the suspects to complete investigation and other legal formalities. However, the judge remanded them in judicial custody and directed the IO to produce them along with an investigation report on the next date.

A case was registered at the Supermarket police station.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2020