HYDERABAD, Oct 8: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, issued notices to Nawabshah DPO, Daur police station SHO, Sub-Inspector Sahib Maqsood, Police Constable Wahabullah Jokhio, Riaz, Zulfikar, and Mushtaq on Saturday on a constitutional petition filed by a woman, Samina, wife of Shabbir, who had been booked under the Zina and Hudood Ordinance.

She said that Riaz, Zulfikar and Mushtaq were her maternal uncles and they got a fake case registered against her husband, Ghulam Shabbir, under sections 11-16 of the ordinance with the help of Daur police.

She said that she had legally married to Shabbir on February 8 before the judicial magistrate of Tando Adam.

The petitioner said that her uncles narrated a concocted story that Ghulam Shabbir married her in the presence of his first wife. In fact Shabbir had divorced his previous wife, Sughra, in January 2005, she claimed.

She said that Constable Wahabullah Jokhio and Sub-Inspector Sahib Maqsood kept them at the police station for fifteen days and took Rs6,000 and then Rs50,000 to get their statement recorded.

She said that her uncles in collusion with the police officers pressurised her husband to divorce her and she was also forced to seek divorce, but she refused.

The petitioner said that the accused barged into her house on June 20 and gave threats of dire consequences.

She requested to the court to direct the SHO of Daur police station to register an FIR against Sub-Inspector Saqib Maqsood and Constable Wahabullah Jokhio.

The court had given the date of October 10 for hearing.