MULTAN, May 10: The Lahore High Court (Multan bench) on Wednesday summoned Multan DPO on May 17 on a harassment petition filed by a girl ho has embraced Islam and her husband.

Justice Muhammad Sayeed Akhtar issued direction to the DPO to appear in person on May 17. “The office shall also issue a notice to the respondent No 8 (the girl’s father)”, the judge ordered.

Petitioners Neelam Ladhani and her husband Amjad Shehzad filed the petition before the LHC after the same was dismissed by a local court.

The petitioner said that she was sui juris aged 21 and she embraced Islam after due deliberation and by her own free will. She solemnised marriage with Shehzad by her own accord but her family did not like it, she said.

Citing the Multan DPO, the Gulgasht SHO (Multan), the Korangi DPO (Karachi), the Darakhshan SHO, the Ghotki DPO, the Gizri SHO and her father Misri Ladhani as respondents, she alleged that the couple was being pressurised to have the marriage dissolved and to make her return to Hinduism, her ancestral religion.

The girl said that she along with her husband migrated to Multan after sensing that their lives were in danger.—APP