SUKKUR, July 20: The Sukkur circuit bench of the Sindh High Court has ordered DPO Qambar-Shahdadkot to produce people involved in holding a jirga regarding remarriage of a woman on August 8.

The single-judge bench of Justice Ali Sain Dino Maitlo issued the orders on a petition filed by Babra Sharif, living at the Sukkur Darul Amman through her lawyer Ghulam Shabbir Shar on Thursday.

In her statement to the court, she said that she had married Fida Hussain Nangrani of her own free will but her relatives were not accepting the marriage.

She said that her parents forcibly handed her over to an influential landlord of the area Sawan Magsi, who presented her to his nephew Zakir Magsi, who forcibly kept her for 11 months as his wife.

She said that one day she escaped from Zakir Magsi’s house, reached Sukkur and appeared before a court, which sent her to Darul Aman.

Altaf Mangi, brother of Babra Sharif, presented a copy of jirga’s decision along with divorce papers before the court, stating that Babra was remarried to Zakir Magsi but as she was not happy and Zakir divorced her and in return took a ‘fine’ of Rs0.6 million from her brother Altaf Mangi, through a jirga.

Justice Ali Sain Dino Maitlo, referring to the ban imposed on holding of jirgas throughout Sindh, once again declared all such jirgas illegal, and directed the administration to take effective measures to stop the jirgas.

The court ordered production of respondents on August 8.