SWABI: Police here have arrested a woman for torturing her two teenage stepdaughters to make them follow her orders.

When contacted, Mr Subhanuddin, maternal uncle of the two sisters, hailing from Jaganat village, told this correspondent on Friday that they had registered an FIR in Swabi city police station.

He said the two reached his house as the cruelty of their stepmother forced them to flee their home. He said mother of the girls died a few years ago and their father had married the accused woman.

Mr Subhanuddin quoted the teenage sisters as saying that their stepmother would always treat them harshly and regularly beat them.

Showing her injured tongue and lips, one of the girls said her stepmother had put a hot knife on her tongue. The other girl alleged that their stepmother placed hot iron on her fingers.

The two sisters said their stepmother used to look for pretexts to beat them. They said whenever they complained to their father he would tell them to cooperate with their stepmother.

According to police, during preliminary investigations the woman had admitted that she treated her stepdaughters harshly.

Published in Dawn, January 16th, 2021